Revision as of 13:29, 17 March 2011

MeeGo-Lem: Linux Everywhere for MeeGolem

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

This is a guide on 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

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• 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

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

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