OchoTracks - 8tracks.com client for MeeGo and Maemo 5

I’ve been working on this new project since last week. Things are coming along, and hopefully I will be able to port it to BlackBerry 10 too. MeeGo - N9 Maemo 5 - N900 I’ll try to release a beta version of this next week!

March 10, 2013 · 1 min

N900 Mer boot to QMLViewer

The following kickstart files allows the n900 to boot into qmlviewer, I’m going to highlight just the bottom of it, with the next lines we create the launcher for the qmlviewer and then create a symbolic link to make it the default desktop environment. cat > /usr/share/xsessions/x-meego-qmlviewer.desktop << EOF [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Name=qmlviewer session Exec=/usr/bin/qmlviewer Type=Application EOF # Set symlink pointing to .desktop file ln -sf x-meego-qmlviewer.desktop /usr/share/xsessions/default.desktop Here is a video of N900 booting: ...

February 14, 2012 · 1 min

Fix for Failed to upload package: Failure on QtCreator

Just got hit by this problem, whenever I tried to deploy my application: 11:06:04: Package created. 11:06:04: Installing package to sysroot ... Package 'untitled' installed. 11:06:04: Preparing SFTP connection... 11:06:04: Starting upload... 11:06:04: Failed to upload package: Failure 11:06:04: Deploy step failed. Error while building project untitled (target: Harmattan) When executing build step 'Deploy Debian package via SFTP upload' And a notification warning about the little remaining data storage appeared on the device, which I wrongly ignored at first. The problem occurs because QtCreator tries to copy the debian packate to /tmp on the device, N9 for me, and it fails if the space is full. I managed to fill my /tmp partition (which is just 4Mb btw..) by testing some big application. Solution is, ssh to your device, check if you /tmp is full (df -h) and delete any .deb file left there by QtCreator. ...

February 7, 2012 · 2 min

MeeGo Image Creator mic2 on ArchLinux

It has been a while since I first tried and failed to get mic2 working on my ArchLinux machine. Since then Arch moved to python 3, and some additional steps are required to get it working, fortunately this time the issues I encountered where easily fixed, I will be reporting them to the packages maintainers, also I have adopted one of them that was abandoned. I have uploaded my PKGBUILDs here just in case the maintainers are unable to make changes soon. ...

January 8, 2011 · 1 min

XChat 2.8 on MeeGo

This is a short post to show how I got XChat 2.8.8 on MeeGo. You will need to download the SRC.RPM file from http://xchat.org/files/binary/rpm/ wget http://xchat.org/files/binary/rpm/xchat-2.8.8-0.fc13.src.rpm sudo zypper in rpm-build perl-ExtUtils-Embed tcl-devel openssl-devel libtool libsexy-devel gettext bison gtk2-devel glib2-devel GConf2-devel rpmbuild –rebuild xchat-2.8.8-0.fc13.src.rpm cd ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/ sudo rpm –install xchat-2.8.8-0.i386.rpm Now a new entry should appear on the Internet category for XChat.

October 24, 2010 · 1 min