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1 MeeGo-Lem: Linux Everywhere for MeeGolem
- 1.1 Installation
2 Some Example Installations

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
- http://lists.meego.com/pipermail/meego-community/2011-February/003570.html
- For chrome, the following versions are available, with 'google-chrome-beta' installed via 'zypper in google-chrome-beta'

i | google-chrome-beta            | Google Chrome | package
  | google-chrome-stable          | Google Chrome | package
  | google-chrome-unstable        | Google Chrome | package

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.