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diff --git a/docs/usermanual/software.sgm b/docs/usermanual/software.sgm index 8b82118..a0a8264 100644 --- a/docs/usermanual/software.sgm +++ b/docs/usermanual/software.sgm @@ -13,41 +13,41 @@ If you are using a version of ipkg lower than 0.99.20 there is a bug that preven oipkg from working properly. If you see errors in the installation log about not being able to kill the old gunzip process, you can get around this by starting oipkg from Embedded Konsole. </para> </important> <section><title>Installing Software</title> <para> There are several way to install a software package, depending on how you are accessing the package. </para> <para> -To install software from a feed (see <xref linkend=feed>), first select "Opie" from the +To install software from a feed (see <xref linkend=feed>), 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 +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. +appear in the Launcher, if they are &opie; applications. </para> <para> If you would like to install software that is not avaialable in a feed, you can download it to your device, and open Filemanger to the directory that it is in. You can then press and hold on the file name, and select "Open in Software", and oipkg will be started, with the package already marked to install. Confirm that it is the correct package, and check any options that you may need and press "Ok" to install the package. </para> <para> If you would like to install a package but are not sure where to find it, and it is not in any of the feeds that you are using, you can try to have oipkg search for it. You can @@ -123,25 +123,25 @@ press the "Remove" button. "Ok" will save the deletion, and "x" will cancel it. 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 +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 mark a single package to be installed to a destination other than the default, you |