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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 @@ -1,65 +1,65 @@ <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> If you are using a version of ipkg lower than 0.99.20 there is a bug that prevents 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 enter a query in the "Search" field in the toolbars, and then press the magnifying glass icon. Oipkg will then search a list of feeds as well as some software websites, and show you all the packages that it thinks might be what you are looking for, and displays them under the "ipkgfind&killefiz" section in the Package view. You can then select the packages that you would like to install from that list and install them as you normally would install packages from a feed. </para> </section> <section><title>Removing Software</title> <para> Removing software is the same as installing software, except you will press the @@ -111,49 +111,49 @@ done, click "Ok" to save, or "x" to cancel. </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 +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 can press and hold on it, and select the destination you would like to use from the "Install to" menu. That package will then be installed in that destination. </para> <para> To install a group of packages 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 mark for install will be installed in the selected feed (The destination will not be changed for the packages already marked for |