Revision as of 18:17, 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

...

• 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, Skype, LibreOffice, etc.

• Simple install of google-chrome beta (and flash/java/talk) on MeeGo 1.2 Netbook
  • see http://lists.meego.com/pipermail/meego-community/2011-February/003570.html

• Chrome: simple setup with LEM installed:

sudo zypper install google-chrome-beta
...
## note three different versions available:
$ zypper search chrome
...
i | google-chrome-beta            | Google Chrome | package
  | google-chrome-stable          | Google Chrome | package
  | google-chrome-unstable        | Google Chrome | package
...

• Adobe Flash: simple setup with LEM installed:
  • See: https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10894#c4

## install from Adobe RPM reposotory from LEM
$ sudo zypper install flash-plugin
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...
The following NEW package is going to be installed:
 flash-plugin 
 1 new package to install.
Overall download size: 4.7 MiB. After the operation, additional 11.6 MiB will be used.
 Continue? [y/n/?] (y): y
 Retrieving package flash-plugin-10.2.152.27-release.i386 (1/1), 4.7 MiB (11.6 MiB unpacked)
 Retrieving: flash-plugin-10.2.152.27-release.i386.rpm [done (790.4 KiB/s)]
 Installing: flash-plugin-10.2.152.27-release [done]

## Setup Link to enable web browser plugin:
$ sudo rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
## Now restart browser or qtwebkit-based apps requiring flash.

• Install latest LibreOffice on MeeGo 1.2 Netbook:
  • http://wiki.meego.com/LibreOffice
  • LibreOffice is recommended over Fedora's OpenOffice: http://forum.meego.com/showpost.php?p=18796&postcount=24 ; also Fedora provides a much older version than LibreOffice, and has special weird Fedora dependencies to the OpenJDK java included with Fedora.

• Installing Skype on MeeGo 1.2 Netbook (doesn't use LEM since skype doesn't provide repository):
  • See http://lists.meego.com/pipermail/meego-community/2011-March/003673.html

$ wget http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-fc10
$ mv getskype-linux-beta-fc10 getskype-linux-beta-fc10.rpm
$ sudo rpm --nodeps -ivh getskype-linux-beta-fc10.rpm

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.