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#1
I installed xterm and bash with the Application Installer.
Now, I could not find the Extras folder when those applications sould appear in the applications menu.

I rebooted the tablet, to no avail. And yes, the two applications appear as already installed in the Application Installer.

Am I missing something obvious?

Last edited by gnok; 2006-02-05 at 21:36.
 
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The first program I tried to install, Doom,... didn't show up in the menu either. Did not find what the problem is, but the programs I installed after Doom all did show up
 
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Thanx for the advice. I installed a third app (Ogg Vorbis player), and it now shows up in Extras. But the two first ones are still not accessible.

I went on installing 2 or 3 more apps, and only the one same app keeps (Ogg Vorbis) appearing in Extras.
 
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I just de-installed Doom and re-installed it and now it is under the Extra menu. So maybe you just have to install some programs and then de-install and re-install the programs that were missing in the menu too.
 
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Perhaps some installers aren't savy enough to create the Extras menu if it doesn't already exist. I've never experienced the problem, but as a shell programmer, I can see how some installers may make the mistake. As TVD implied, try de-installing and re-installing the faulty programs. If the Extras menu already exists in the file system, maybe the faulty programs will correctly add themselves to it.
 
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bash won't[1] show up in the Extras menu as its designed to be run from within XTerm, not standalone.

[1] I could be wrong, and it might have a .desktop file to start xterm and start bash within that xterm - however I'd be surprised. Probably pleasantly, TBH...
 
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In my initial message, I mentioned that bash was not appearing in the Extras menu. Thinking about that, I believe this is normal, as this is not a stand-alone gui application; it needs xterm.

In my initial message, I had also mentioned xterm, which rightly appears as a GUI app on the maemo.org site. Xterm does not appear in the Extras menu after the install.
The version I downloaded is http://770.fs-security.com/xterm/fil...m_0.11_arm.deb

Thisis a MAJOR problem, as xterm is necessary for running all the command-line applications.
 
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#8
I downloaded a fresh copy of the xterm package, installed it, and it now shows up in Extras.

Lesson learned: do not trust the integrity of what is downloaded with the browser provided with the 770.
 
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