How to run hello-world-home in FREMANTLE environment

go to : maemoexamples/branches/fremantle-sdk-testing/maemo-examples

then make hello-world-home.so

af-sb-init.sh start

Then ./install_home_applet.sh

Then

mkdir -p ~/.config/hildon-desktop
echo >> ~/.config/hildon-desktop/home.plugins
echo "[hello-world-home.desktop-0]" >> ~/.config/hildon-desktop/home.plugins
echo "X-Desktop-File=/usr/share/applications/hildon-home/hello-world-home.desktop" >> ~/.config/hildon-desktop/home.plugins
echo >> ~/.config/hildon-desktop/home.plugins

You will see the gnu logo in the emulator.

Dependencies of Fennec on Ubuntu 8.04

In order to compile Fennec 1.05b, you got to install the following packages:

autoconf
autoconf2.13
libdbus-glib-1-dev
libnotify-bin
libnotify-dev
libasound2-dev
libcurl4-gnutls-dev
libidl-dev
libiw-dev
libxt-dev

Command example: "sudo apt-get install autoconf"

Where to get "mawk" for maemo sdk

put the following line into your /etc/apt/source.list

deb http://repository.maemo.org mistral free non-free,


then use fakeroot apt-get install mawk, you would get it for your build

Maemo SDK : Failed to do apt-get update

If you get this kind of error:

[sbox-FREMANTLE_X86: ~] > apt-get update
Err http://repository.maemo.org fremantle/sdk Release.gpg
Temporary failure resolving 'repository.maemo.org'
Err http://repository.maemo.org fremantle/tools Release.gpg
Temporary failure resolving 'repository.maemo.org'
Reading package lists... Done
W: Failed to fetch
http://repository.maemo.org/dists/fremantle/sdk/Release.gpg Temporary
failure resolving 'repository.maemo.org'

W: Failed to fetch
http://repository.maemo.org/dists/fremantle/tools/Release.gpg Temporary
failure resolving 'repository.maemo.org'

W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old
ones used instead.
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
[sbox-FREMANTLE_X86: ~] >

Please do the following:
1) inside your scratchbox,
[sbox-FREMANTLE_X86: ~] > nano /etc/resolv.conf

2) outside your scratchbox but in your host PC:
[$] cat /etc/resolv.conf

3) Please copy the content of your host PC's resolv.conf to your scratchbox's one

4) then do the update again, it shall work