Originally Posted by Feathers McGraw

I have such a love hate relationship with Linux! Here are my experiences trying to install flasher and flash the N900 on Ubuntu 14.10 in case they're useful to other noobs:

I did two things wrong here. First, I used the wrong version of flasher, which gave this error message:

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ERROR: APE algorithm has to be provided to flash all the subimages

After some searching on the forum, I unpacked the .tar.gz file for the correct version of flasher (3.5) and tried to run the binary with ./flasher-3.5 but BASH was giving this unhelpful error:

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bash: ./flasher-3.5: No such file or directory

This happened becuase i'm on a 64 bit machine. Googling will probably tell you to install ia32-libs, but this doesn't work on newer versions of Debian/Ubuntu. These two commands worked for me:

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sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib # complains about unmet dependencies
sudo apt-get -f install

I then:

• Flashed eMMC
• Flashed rootFS

...everything appears to be working!

Thank you both for your help today, that article had lots of interesting stuff in it.

CSSU tomorrow, then I'll go exploring!

Sam