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Subject: *Usefull Maemo Stuff
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bla..bla 8.03.10 - 02:10pm
Please dont spam this up with things, try to keep it clean for users both new and old to post handy tips and usefull info for everyone to take full advantage of their devices... * +

bla..bla 8.03.10 - 02:13pm
Shell Commands (X-Term) - apt-get will be probably the most used command you will need in this. Firstly apt-get update this will check the repositorys you have listed for the latest updates and refresh the catalogs on your phone, this is to be used in conjuntion with apt-get upgrade Upgrade, incase you didnt guess is to update the operating system and programs on the phone. * +

bla..bla 8.03.10 - 02:20pm
This needs to be executed as the ROOT user, so you will need rootsh installed or you can type sudo in infront of every command to achieve same thing, eg sudo apt-get update If you have rootsh install then to get to execute commands as root user type in sudo gainroot If you want to install rootsh then you will need to enable the EXTRAS repository and install openssh, when installing it will.... * +

bla..bla 8.03.10 - 02:21pm
ask you to input a password, *NOTE make sure this is something that you will remember* once it is installed you can then use the sudo gainroot command in the terminal (X-Term) * +

bla..bla 8.03.10 - 02:25pm
More APT stuff.... To install packages type in the following command apt-get install PACKAGE-NAME eg apt-get install unrar this will then install the appropriate package that you specified, sometime this will fail saying that there are dependancy packages missing, to get around this type in the following command apt-get -f install this will install the packages that are needed and the... * +

bla..bla 8.03.10 - 02:25pm
package that you was initially trying to install. * +

bla..bla 8.03.10 - 02:28pm
To remove installed packages, apt-get remove *PACKAGE-NAME eg apt-get remove unrar this will uninstall the package from the device. Sometimes this will cause an error if other packages are using the files that are also installed in the package, for this the solution is to use the following command, apt-get autoremove this will remove the files that arent needed leaving the files that are. * +

bla..bla 8.03.10 - 02:32pm
APT-GET Update Errors - sometimes when you have been adding packages or repositorys to the device you will get an error when the command !apt-get update is issued, this can usually be fixed with the following command - apt-get -f update - This forces the repository lists to refresh from new so the error that was being recieved is now gone. * +

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