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 <chapter><title>Software</title>
 
 <para>
 The "Software" application, also called oipkg, is what is used to install and
 remove software.  It is actually a frontend to the command line program "ipkg"
 so most things you can do with oipkg you can also do with ipkg.  Oipkg can
 install things either remotely from a web server (called a "feed") or it can
 install an ipkg package file that resides on the local filesystem.
 </para>
 <important>
 <para>
 There is a bug in oipkg that prevents it from installing packages
 properly.  There is, however, a workaround for it.  Simply run oipkg from
 Embedded Konsole to avoid the bug.
 </para>
 </important>
 
 <section><title>Installing Software</title>
 <para>
 To install software, first select "Opie" from the "Section" pulldown menu,
 the press the "+" icon next to "Feeds" in the main view.  This will show all
 the available Opie packages (you can change which packages to view by selecting
 something else from the "Section" pulldown).  Installed packages are marked
 with a blue circle, while packages that are not installed are marked with a red
 box.  If you click on the icon for an uninstalled package, it will turn into an
 open box, with a blue circle coming out of it, indicating that you have marked
 this package to be installed.  Mark as many packages as you wish this way, and
 then press the "Apply" icon (same red box and blue dot icon) to install all
 the marked packages.  It will also remove any packages marked for removal (see
 below).  Clicking this will open a window showing all the packages marked to be
 removed and installed, with some check boxes on the bottom, which represent
 arguments to be sent to ipkg, which you can usually ignore.  After verifying
 that all the packages to be installed are correct, press "Ok" in the upper
 right corner (or press "x" to cancel and go back to the package selection
 window).  The packages should then install, and you should see their icons
 appear in the Launcher, if they are Opie applications.
 </para>
 </section>
 
 <section><title>Removing Software</title>
 <para>
 Removing software is the same as installing software, except you will press the
 blue circle icon of an installed package, and it will have a red "X" over it.  
 Then press the apply icon, and "Ok".  You can install and remove packages at
 the same time by marking the ones you want to install and the ones you want to 
 remove, and then pressing apply.
 </para>
 </section>
 
+<section><title>Servers</title>
+<para>
+When you install software normally, ipkg downloadins  the packages automatically
+from ipkg servers (also called "Feeds") and installing them.  The list of
+servers and where they are is stored in a file called ipkg.conf in /etc/.  Oipkg
+is capable of maintaining this list, as well as adding or deleting feeds from 
+it.
+</para>
+<section><title>Selecting Servers</title>
+<para>
+To select which feeds you want to be able to see and install packages from, go 
+to Settings&arrow;Setups.  There will be a box with a list of servers in it 
+called "Used Servers".  Servers that are highlighted will be used to install 
+software from, while servers that are not highlighted will be ignored.  You can 
+click on a server to toggle its status.  When a server is disabled, the
+information about that server such as its name and location is kept, so that 
+you can resume using it without having to reenter this data.  "Ok" will save the 
+changes, and "x" will cancel them.
+</para>
+</section>
+<section><title>Adding Servers</title>
+<para>
+You can add a server to your list of available servers by going to 
+Settings&arrow;Servers.  Click on the button labeled "New" and enter the name 
+and URL into the appropriate fields at the bottom of the window.  The name is 
+only for your convinience, so name it whatever makes sense to you.  The URL is 
+the URL of the feed, so the URL for the opie feed would be 
+"http://131.152.105.154/feeds/ipaq/unstable".  When you are done, click "Ok" to 
+save the new server, or "x" to cancel adding it.
+</para>
+</section>
+<section><title>Editing Servers</title>
+<para>
+To change the URL or name of a server, go to Settings&arrow;Servers, and select
+the server that you want to edit.  The current Name and URL should appear in the
+appropriate fields, and you can change them to the new values.  Once you are
+done, click "Ok" to save, or "x" to cancel.
+</para>
+</section>
+<section><title>Deleting Servers</title>
+<para>
+If you no longer need to use a server, this can be done by going to
+Settings&arrow;Servers.  You can then select the server you wish to delete and 
+press the "Remove" button.  "Ok" will save the deletion, and "x" will cancel it.
+</para>
+</section>
+</section>
+
 <section><title>Destinations</title>
 <para>
 Software is distributed in a format called "ipkg" which contains all the 
 necessary files for the program, as well as information on where to put them.  
 However, this information is only half complete, as it tells the package manager 
 where in the "destination" to put the files, but the package manager must know 
 where this "destination" is.  The default destination is "/" (called "root") so
 if the package says to install a file in opt/QtPalmtop/ then the file will be
 installed in /opt/QtPalmtop/.  However, if ask the package manger to use a
 destination at /mnt/hda/ (this is typically where a compact flash card would be)
 then the files will be installed in /mnt/hda/opt/QtPalmtop/.
 </para>
 <para>
 The problem with installing file in a destination other than root is that the 
 software usually does not know where to fine the installed files, and Opie does 
 not know where to find the information that tells it how to display the program 
 in the Launcher.  To get around this, the package manager creates links 
 <footnote><para>See <xref linkend=symlink> for more information on symbolic 
 links in Linux</para></footnote> from where the files would be if they were 
 installed in root to where they are actually installed.  This means that no more 
 space is taken up where the files would normally be installed, but any programs
 can still find the files where they think they should be.
 </para>
 
 <section><title>Using Destinations</title>
 <para>
 To install a package in a destination other than root, go to 
 Settings&arrow;Setups to open the settings dialog to the Setups tab.  From here
 you can select the destination you would like to install the package to from the 
 pulldown menu at the bottom.  You will also want to check "Link to root 
 destination" so that links are properly made.  Once you have selected the 
 destination you want to install the package to, click the dialog's "Ok" button, 
 and all packages that you install will be installed to the destination you 
 selected.
 </para>
 </section>
 <section><title>Adding Destinations</title>
 <para>
 To add a destination, go to Settings&arrow;Destinations to bring up the settings 
 dialog at the Destinations tab, and press the "New" button to add a new 
 Destination to the list.  The new destination should be highlighted 
 automatically, and you can then change the name and the URL with the two text 
 entry fields below it.  The name is only for easy display of the destination, so 
 name it whatever makes the most sense to you.  The URL is the location that you 
 want the destination to have.  So, if you want all your software to be installed 
 under /usr/directory then you would set the URL to that.  You can then click 
 "Ok" to save, or "x" to cancel the changes.
 </para>
 </section>
 <section><title>Editing Destinations</title>
 <para>
 You can edit a destination by going to Settings&arrow;Destinations and selecting 
 the destination that you would like to edit.  Then you can edit the Name and URL 
 fields in the same manner as when you added a destination.  To save, click "Ok" 
 or cancel by clicking "x".
 </para>
 </section>
 <section><title>Deleting Destinations</title>
 <para>
 Deleting a destination is very easy.  Go to Settings&arrow;Destinations and 
 select the Destination that you would like to delete in the dialog that appears. 
  Press the "Remove" button to delete the destination, and press "Ok" to save the 
 changes, or "x" to cancel them.
 </para>
 </section>
 </section>
 </chapter>