Maemo-2.0 Mistral
Apps Packaged by Jimc
This is a collection of software for Maemo-2.0 Mistral
that were downloaded from debian.org
or from the maintainers' sites, and compiled in Scratchbox by jimc.
The software itself is unhacked, but
packages from Debian all needed minor tweaks in the control and/or rules
files because Maemo provides different packages and utilities. Some packages
from maintainers didn't already have Debian administrative files, and for
those I created them.
You can download packages directly off this web page -- use the Deb
links -- if you mind the dependencies yourself; there are links with the
packages (labelled with the archive root) that point to the actual packages
there. In at least one case, a package downloaded off this page (Pine) needed
prerequisite packages which I had not installed, and the Application Installer
felt it was not authorized to acquire them, so it very helpfully announced
incompatible package
and didn't show the list of prerequisites. Please
see the archive description for:
- How to use this archive with the Application Manager's own GUI, which
handles dependencies automatically, including Pine.
- Jim Carter's PGP public key.
- How to use apt-get if the Application Manager misbehaves.
- Generic build instructions, if you want to reproduce or hack the
packages yourself.
| Package | Description | Deb | Source | Diff
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|---|
| Bash
| Souped up Bourne shell, with history and job control from
C-shell, better completions than C-shell, and strange and unique
array variables. Much better than the emasculated shell (strictly
POSIX?) in busybox. Note: the package is called bash-m ,
because busybox has a listed conflict with bash -- it provides a
POSIX Bourne shell and thinks it needs to force out all competitors.
This is bash-3.1. Depends on libncurses5 and ncurses-base, available
from repository.maemo.org - mistral - free. Direct links:
ncurses-base,
libncurses5,
|  Deb
| Src
| Diff
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| Less
| Pager that can go backward, much better than more .
This is less-394. Depends on ncurses-base, available from
repository.maemo.org - mistral - free.
| Deb
| Src
| Diff
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| Pine
| Mail reader, text mode in xterm. Can do IMAP (port 143) and POP3 (110). Can do SSL/TLS (port 587, 993 and 995). In jimc's opinion,
Pine is much preferable to the provided GUI mail reader (hacked Sylpheed). However,
mail that you send is from user . But the project to
be myself on the
ITB has ended in success.
This is pine-4.64. Depends on mime-support, available from
repository.maemo.org - mistral - free.
When building, you need to rename pine4.64 to pine-4.64 before
applying the Debian patch, hiss, boo. Debian says that the Pine
license forbids distribution of modified binaries , but I don't
see that restriction in the current CPYRIGHT file, nor do I see that
the binaries are substantially modified. So I'm going to ignore the
issue.
| Deb
| Src
| Diff
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| Pilot
| File manager, goes with Pine (optional). The Debian Pine
package builds Pilot at the same time.
| Deb
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| GnuPG
| Command line tool gpg can encrypt, decrypt and sign
files; also includes a key management system.
Depends on libreadline4, available from
repository.maemo.org - mistral - free.
| Deb
| Src
| Diff
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These are the components of NTP, the Network Time Protocol.
This is ntp-4.2.0a+stable.
Ntpdate and the utilities (ntpq) work, but sadly, the daemons do nothing.
Remember when you install NTP you need to edit the provided /etc/ntp.conf
and/or /etc/default/ntpdate (used in the boot-time startup script)
and replace the given generic servers with your preferred ones.
The generic build instructions at the end of this page need to be modified
slightly for NTP.
- The source tarball (shown only for the ntp package) builds all six
deb files at once, and it's not easy to decline particular ones.
- Once you un-tar the source and apply the Debian patch, you need to:
mv ntp-4.2.0a+stable.orig ntp-4.2.0a+stable
This is a crock. Buildpackage gets confused by the .orig extension.
- Unless you have lynx on your Scratchbox (not likely), you will need
to download this kludge script and
put it somewhere that will be on the path during building, such as
Scratchbox's /usr/local/bin, which you will need to create. It's
used to convert the copyright file's HTML to plain text.
| Package | Description | Deb | Source | Diff
|
|---|
| ntp
| Utilities such as ntpq to monitor operation of NTP.
ntpq -p [hostname] shows the time difference between
hostname (default: localhost) and the servers to which its ntp daemon
is synced. This assumes that a ntp daemon is running on that host.
Depends on libreadline4, hiding at
repository.maemo.org - mistral - free.
| Deb
| Src
| Diff
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| ntpdate
| Sets your clock once from a server; run this periodically.
The Debian installation drops in a script to execute it at boot
time, but this won't do much good because the ITB
will not yet have a network connection. Requires libelfg0, available
from
http://repository.maemo.org - mistral - free
| Deb
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| ntp-simple
| Run this daemon on your machine to keep its clock closely synchronized
with other NTP servers.
Unfortunately on the Nokia 770 with Maemo-2.0 the daemon exits
immediately with no obvious diagnostics in its logfile, and I haven't
found out why. Suspicion: the kernel lacks the necessary timer API.
But I can't find a kernel configuration option for this.
| Deb
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| ntp-refclock
| If you have an atomic or radio clock, including a
GPS receiver,
install this package and pipe the clock's output to the NTP daemon.
Your daemon can serve as a reference for other NTP clients.
As with ntp-simple, it's not likely that this will work on
the Nokia 770.
| Deb
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| ntp-server
| Common code for ntp-simple and ntp-refclock; the Debian
installer should acquire this package automatically, but it doesn't,
so you need to install ntp-server explicitly if you install either
of the daemons.
| Deb
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| ntp-doc
| NTP documentation in HTML form, which you can read on your
Internet Tablet :-)
| Deb
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