Revision as of 22:57, 15 March 2011

WARNING:  THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS
STATUS: Not even close yet.

MeeGo-Lem: Linux Everywhere for MeeGolem

Aka. How to run and install Fedora's "noncompliant apps", along with the rest of Fedora14 libs and apps, on MeeGo 1.2 Netbook. The intent here is not MeeGo non-compliance, but rather end-user usefulness, on-par with what other user's get from installing Fedora, and then following instructions like http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f14.html to actually get a system that's worth using.

This hack provides the following repositories that work alongside MeeGo's if you're careful with your use of 'zypper'

• Fedora 14 from http://fedoraproject.org/
• Noncompliant and additional packages from http://rpmfusion.org/
• Audio/Video from http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/
• Adobe's Flash Plugin RPM repository from http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/productinfo/instructions/#section-3
• Google Chrome Browser RPM repository from http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?platform=linux

The end result is over 20000 packages many of which work beautifully.

See http://lists.meego.com/pipermail/meego-community/2011-March/003675.html

https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14129

Installation

Prerequisites

• Setup sudo

...

• Install tar and wget

sudo zypper install tar wget
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Install repositories

• /etc/zypp/repos.d/*.repo

 cd /tmp ; wget 'https://bugs.meego.com/attachment.cgi?id=4761'
 cd /    ; tar xvzf '/tmp/attachment.cgi?id=4761'

• /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/*

 cd /tmp ; wget 'https://bugs.meego.com/attachment.cgi?id=4762'
 cd /    ; tar xvzf '/tmp/attachment.cgi?id=4762'

Refresh zypper

$ sudo zypper clean --all
$ sudo zypper refresh

The Hacks that Make it All Possible

• Fedora uses readline6, MeeGo uses readline5.

• Fedora uses Python 2.7, MeeGo uses Python 2.6.

Some Example Installations

Google Chrome, Flash Plugins, Java, etc.

http://lists.meego.com/pipermail/meego-community/2011-February/003570.html

Be able to watch/hear common internet media formats.

smplayer to watch streamed audio/video.

gpodder and needed python plugins -- to watch/manage podcats.

The OpenShot Video Editor

image http://nielsmayer.com/meego/lem/openshot.png

The Jack Audio Connection Kit, QJackCtl, and Various Cool Audio Tools

image http://nielsmayer.com/meego/netbooktablet/CCRMA-3.png image http://nielsmayer.com/meego/netbooktablet/CCRMA-2.png image http://nielsmayer.com/meego/netbooktablet/CCRMA-4.png image http://nielsmayer.com/meego/netbooktablet/CCRMA-5.png image http://nielsmayer.com/meego/netbooktablet/CCRMA-6.png

Qtractor Audio/MIDI Editor and Sound processing plugins.

image http://nielsmayer.com/meego/qtractor-plastique-style-meego.png image http://nielsmayer.com/meego/qtractor-dialogs-plastique-style-meego.png