GUI package management (was: Nano on Openmoko)

[Brandon Kruger]

On Tue April 15 2008 9:51:25 am Tim Shannon wrote:
> 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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There is an Application Manager program listed but every time I've tried it 
use it I just get Segfaults.

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