Cannot install or make cmake

[jontheramer]

I'm trying to use cmake, but opkg install cmake doesn't work (Cannot install package cmake) and compiling gives A LOT of errors and then says it failed (duh).


How can I download the opkg package somewhere and manually install it?

 

[mcobit]

http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/repo/


sudo opkg install packagename


But get the right packges for the 2008 angstrom distribution. .next packages might not work.

 

[jontheramer]

Yes I did that, and it refuses to install; no errors given.

 

[mcobit]

Did you do


Sudo opkg update


Before?

 

[jontheramer]

I'll go sit in a corner repeating RTFM softly to myself. Thank you!

 

[jontheramer]

After running update indeed stuff started to 'work', but almost everything (like cmake) refuses to install because the rest is too old (it complains), so I ran upgrade. I guess I shouldn't have done that as it doesn't work It segfaults (this has been discussed here already) and after it Networkmanager is dead (libnl.so.1 has been replaced by libnl.so.2). I cannot compile Networkmanager either as it has needs a recent version of intltool


But cmake was installed after the upgrade but that's also an ancient version ; nothing recent works without it complaining cmake is too old.


So how do I get a recent cmake working without killing Networkmanager? And can I get Networkmanager back again without reflashing?


(Note that cmake doesn't want to compile from scratch; there are 100s of errors when attempting that)

 

[slaeshjag]

Running opkg upgrade is indeed a bad idea. If you want to compile on a standard pandora OS, I'd recomment you copy the system to a chroot first.

 

[jontheramer]

Is there any description on how to do that? I know how it works in debian with debootstrap, but this being another arch and such, I'm worried i'll mess something up.

 

[slaeshjag]

I just copied my filesystem from nand to a folder on my SD-card. when I run "sudo chroot ." while in that directory, and I can mess around as much as I want.

 

[jontheramer]

Ok, that sounds simple enough I assume you don't have a FAT32 on your SD card then


But I did all the messing around now in my root system and it didn't bring me closer to a working cmake; any idea how to make that work? Because even in a chrooted FS, I wouldn't have a clue to make that work.


And in the chrooted FS, I assume you are not using the development PND, but rather some opkg installed build-essentials ?

 

[slaeshjag]

I honestly can't remember, it was over a year ago since I set it up (around the time when I posted a photo of my pandora installing Windows XP iirc)

 

[jontheramer]

So far I did (all with sudo in front);


mkfs.ext4 /dev/mmcblk1p1


mkdir /chrooted


mount /dev/mmcblk1p1 /chrooted


rsync -av /bin /dev /home /linuxrc /sbin /tmp /var /boot /etc /lib /sys /usr /chrooted


mkdir /chrooted/proc


mount -t proc /proc /chrooted/proc


chroot /chrooted


and then it works fine. Now to figure out how to get all the dev stuff working!


so far I did;


opkg install gcc gcc-symlinks cpp g++ g++-symlinks binutils binutils-symlinks linux-libc-headers-dev libc6-dev autoconf make libz-dev libz1 perl perl-dev perl-modules tcl tcl-dev python-modules distcc coreutils libstdc++-dev cmake libstdc++6 libsdl-1.2-dev libsdl-image-1.2-dev


(i'm trying to mimic apt-get install build-essential with some extras)


I needed to run this line several times before it would actually install all of it (no idea why).