Nano on Openmoko

Tim Shannon shannon.timothy at gmail.com
Tue Apr 15 15:51:25 CEST 2008


Kind of off topic, but is there a slick GUI for opkg yet?  Terminal typing
on the go with a stylus seems like it might get pretty tedious.

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Brandon Kruger <bmk789 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon April 14 2008 6:01:10 pm Kevin Dean wrote:
> > Nano is available in the repositories included with recent images.
> >
> > To install it, one simply needs to do "opkg install nano
> > -force-overwrite" on an internet connected Neo. I'm assuming that QEMU
> > would do the same.
> >
> > -Kevin
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Brandon Kruger <bmk789 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > After playing with my qemu VM of Openmoko for a while, I decided to
> play
> > > with cross compiling some programs (mostly my ~20 line beginners C
> > > programs). After noticing vi was the only text editor included, I
> figured
> > > another option might be useful.  So I played with the nano source and
> the
> > > arm gcc cross-compiler (I like to call omgcc)  and finally got nano
> > > running on the OM!  I don't know how most of it will work since Ctrl
> > > doesn't seem to work in the VM (any thoughts on this?)  Anyway, here's
> a
> > > link to the nano binary for you to run on your VM/Neo/Freerunner.
>  Enjoy
> > >
> > >  http://onedollarlinux.com/misc/openmoko/arm-angstrom-linux-nano.bz2
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> I found out how to use opkg right after I sent out the email. :\  Oh well,
> it's a newer version than in the repo so maybe it can be useful to
> someone.
> Next on the to do list, get Tomboy running :)
>
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