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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>I take your point,
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>I went back to blue pill mode
after I'd played with it a while, it's good to know that one can switch
back and forth between the modes.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>The reason I purchased the device was so
that I could play with things like this, it's not such a closed box as, say, a
Treo. These red-pill-like features are exactly what I was looking for. And if it
gets me into trouble from time to time then I will just have to re-flash. The
same could be said for installing the xterm or python.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>It's good to have an inexpensive device
that's bringing some of the fun back into computing - just like my ZX81 once
did.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks all</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Alan</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> maemo-users-bounces@maemo.org on behalf of
Marius Gedminas<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wed 1/24/2007 10:23 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
maemo-users@maemo.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [maemo-users] Python installation
failure on N800<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 10:00:51AM -0800, Mike Klein
wrote:<BR>> Robson, Alan wrote:<BR>> > I tried to install python 2.5
for OS2007 via the maemo website but my<BR>> > N800 tells me that it is
unable to install because some packages<BR>> > required for the
installation are missing.<BR>> > <BR>> >
libglade2-0(>=1.2.3.6)<BR>> > libsdl-ttf2.0-0<BR>> >
libsdl-ttf2.0-0 (yes, that really does appear twice !)<BR>> >
libgdbm3<BR>><BR>> Google on "red pill" mode for nokia device and enable
it. This will give<BR>> you access to extra pkgs not for
joe-consumer.<BR><BR>Red-pill mode is irrelevant when the application installer
looks for<BR>dependencies.<BR><BR>I think it is a bad idea to have the red-pill
mode enabled all the time.<BR>You may decide to upgrade some system package
(e.g. maemo-launcher) and<BR>as a result make the system
unbootable.<BR><BR>Marius Gedminas<BR>--<BR>In order to get a loan you must
first prove you don't need it.<BR></FONT></P></DIV>
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