[Alpine-info] Alpine or re-Alpine for Nokia N9 mobile phone.

[Brian Durant]

On 05/06/2012 10:45 AM, Peter G. wrote:

> Hodie III Non. Mai. MMXII AUC quidam/quædam/quoddam 'Brian Durant' inquit:

>

>> I am looking for a version of Alpine or re-Alpine that I can install

>> on my newly purchased Nokia N9. I have yet to receive my phone, but I

>> have tried to do some research on the issue and have come up blank.

>> Can anyone advise?

>>

>> As far as I understand, the N9 OS is MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan. I believe it

>> is a modified version of MeeGo Linux that is most closely related to

>> Maemo Linux. Rather confusing and also why I am unsure where to find

>> information on this issue.

>

> There is a SDK for Harmattan available form Nokia. It includes a

> cross-compiler, qemu-based runtime and Debian build environment for the

> platform based on squeeze.

>

> http://www.developer.nokia.com/Community/Wiki/Harmattan:Platform_Guide

>

> You could try to build a package from the debian source in that

> environment.

>

> If you're adventurous, you could try to install the prebuilt .deb from

> here: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/armel/alpine/download but I'm

> not sure it'll work OOTB.

>

> On the other hand, as there is a ssh client the quicker solution would

> probably be screen (or tmux) with alpine on some server and ssh sesion

> from the phone.

>

> HTH, and let us know if it works. I have an N9 as well and having alpine

> running on it would be nice indeed.


Thanks,

I have an old Dell Latitude laptop I can try to install Debian and the 
Harmattan SDK on. The SDK installer can be found here:
http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/platform-sdk/

Scratchbox install info can be found here:
http://scratchbox.org/documentation/user/scratchbox-1.0/html/installdoc.html#AEN132

BTW, Any favorite N9 URLs for a new N9 user? As you can guess, I am 
particularly interested in what can be done from the command line on an 
N9. Does the N9 use apt as package manager?