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Free Software & INdT & Python Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri on 23 Jun 2006 08:02 pm

Python in Maemo 2.0: repository available!

For those wondering how to get Python working in Maemo 2.0, INdT (guys from pymaemo, responsible for the port) provide a repository at http://maemo.org.br/platform/apt/ (note the domain .br!) with packages.

Worth remembering that these will go into http://repository.maemo.org after quarantine period. Python is supported by maemo, is already included in 2.0 SDK and will ship with products (at least nokia 770) soon.

Python is much more complete now: it includes bindings for Gstreamer, BlueZ, DBus and Glade! PyGame, Hildon and others are much improved and we will see bindings for other libraries available in platform soon! Stay tunned.

If you want to know more about python in maemo, check great tutorial available on website, thanks Daniel D’Andrada.

UPDATE: As Herraiz noticed in his comment, you may add the following repository to your Application Manager/Tools/Application Catalog…: Web address:

http://maemo.org.br/platform/apt/

, Distribution:

python

, Components

python

UPDATE.2:You will also need the official repository http://repository.maemo.org/ (distribution is mistral-beta, components is free) in order to get libncurses5 dependency. Note that this repository has great tools for developers, like ssh, which won’t show in Application Manager, but is installable using command line sudo gainroot; apt-get install ssh

UPDATE.3: Since maemo 2.0 (mistral) was released, there is no mistral-beta distribution anymore, it is now called mistral and the great news: Python is now included in this repository! No need to have the maemo.org.br anymore. New catalog entry is http://repository.maemo.org/ (distribution is mistral, component is free)

5 Responses to “Python in Maemo 2.0: repository available!”

  1. on 23 Jun 2006 at 8:50 pm 1.herraiz said …

    To set up it in your Nokia 770 with 2006 OS version, add a new catalogue and write down as repository http://maemo.org.br/platform/apt, python as distribution an also python as components in the Application catalogue option inside the Application manager.

    You forgot to mention that in your post.

  2. on 27 Jun 2006 at 4:20 am 2.Wahlau-eh said …

    anyone had this problem:
    unable to install python2.4-runtime
    Packages missing:
    libncurses5 >= 5.4.1

    how do i find libncurses?

  3. on 27 Jun 2006 at 8:03 am 3.Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri said …

    You probably miss the official maemo repository:

    Web Address: http://repository.maemo.org

    Distribution: mistral-beta

    Components: free

  4. on 14 Jul 2006 at 5:52 pm 4.jeroen said …

    when i try to add repository.maemo.org to the application catalogue i receive an error while updating, Are the data mentioned in your last comment still used?

  5. on 17 Jul 2006 at 11:28 am 5.Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri said …

    There is no “mistral-beta” distribution anymore, you should use “mistral” now.

    Thanks, I’ll update my post.

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