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

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:59:02 +0000

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!

N900 Mer boot to QMLViewer

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 03:40:25 +0000

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:

Fix for Failed to upload package: Failure on QtCreator

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:32:52 +0000

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.

MeeGo Image Creator mic2 on ArchLinux

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 22:39:14 +0000

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.

XChat 2.8 on MeeGo

Sun, 24 Oct 2010 21:24:50 +0000

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.