Installing Maemo Development Environment

If you want to use your own computer at Code Camp, you can install Maemo SDK+ by following Install notes at Maemo SDK home site. Installation instructions are provided for Ubuntu and Debian distributions. For Ubuntu 9.04, correct repository for packages is:

  deb http://maemo-sdk.garage.maemo.org/download/host ubuntu-jaunty free

In section 3.1, instead of installing sudo maemo-sdk install tools etch-2008, install newer tools with command sudo maemo-sdk install tools lenny-2009-1. For the rootstrap, select diablo4.1.2 (section 4.1)

To enable the usage of Internet Tablet via USB/Bluetooth/WLAN install host-pc-connectivity -package, see instructions from http://pc-connectivity.garage.maemo.org/2nd_edition/installation.html

Xserver-Xephyr 1.6.0, shipped with Ubuntu 9.04 is crashing with Maemo SDK+ environment. Therefore, for Ubuntu 9.04 users, downgrading to 1.5.2 is necessary.

• xserver-xephyr_1.5.2-2ubuntu3_i386.deb

Install with command

dpkg -i xserver-xephyr_1.5.2-2ubuntu3_i386.deb

System update is trying to re-install newer version. It can be prevented by putting following lines into /etc/apt/preferences

Package: xserver-xephyr
Pin: version 1.5.2*
Pin-Priority: 1001

JAVA runtime is required for running Eclipse IDE. To develop applications for Maemo with Eclipse:

1. Install Eclipse Ganymede
2. Add sites to Eclipse:
   • http://download.eclipse.org/tools/cdt/releases/ganymede and install
     • CDT GNU toolchain build support
     • CDT GNU toolchain debug support
     • Eclipse CDT p2 toolchain installer
     • Eclipse CDT testing feature
     • Eclipse C/C++ Development Platform
     • Eclipse C/C++ Tools
     • Eclipse C/C++ Tools SDK
     • Eclipse C/C++ Tools Utilities
   • http://pydev.sourceforge.net/updates and install
     • PyDev
   • http://mica.garage.maemo.org/update/2.0 and install
     • Maemo Device Support
     • Maemo SDK Support
   • http://esbox.garage.maemo.org/update/2.0 and install
     • EsBox (all)
   • http://pluthon.garage.maemo.org/update/2.0 and install
     • Pluthon

Install self-contained Maemo development package, branded ESBox.

ESBox installation instructions

1. Install Java runtime, if not installed
2. download and unzip necessary .zip packages of esbox 2.0.0M5 (beta 2 prerelease) from garage project page, one zip ending with -common.zip and one for the specific system, e.g. -linux.gtk.x86.zip
3. run esbox from unzipped folder