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Setting Up NDK on Window

Looking for some assistance getting the NDK working properly on Windows 7 (64).
I followed all of the instructions to set up the NDK in windows but am running into an issue.
Per the instructions you need to install CYGWIN which i did and then go to the root NDK folder and run build/host-setup.sh.
Once I run this i get the following error;
ERROR: Could not find a valid GNU make executable.
Please ensure GNU Make 3.81 or later is installed.
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I do have GNU make 3.81 installed for windows.
If i try to use cygwin to run a make APP=hello-jni as a test as it states i get the error;
bash: make: command not found
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if i use windows command prompt i can run the make.exe fine.
I'm thinking the issue is because its trying to use a Linux based make since i would assume Cygwin cannot rune EXE files.
Could anyone assist me with this that has it set up and working properly in windows?

Any takers please?

Check 'Make' package in Cygwin setup.

Do yourself a favor and use a real operating system. Ditch that MSJUNK.
On top of that, I *strongly* suggest that NOBODY EVER use windoze for compiling ANYTHING. When you are building software for other people to use, you most *definitely* do NOT want to build software that has been compromised. Windoze is the world's number ONE compromised platform. It about as save as having your way with a 50 year old street corner hooker without protection.

[Dev Only] Lets Get a Fully working version of Jaunty Starting With apt-get

OK now that the first hard part is over (getting Webtop running with out dock) now its time to push this to the limits ... I am Currently working on getting apt-get installed and running on Jaunty ... I would love to get some help with all this, obviousy this wont replace my laptop or Desktop, but it would be nice to know that anywhere i am i have a fully function linux machine in my pocket... so lets keep up the good work and push forward, CHARGE !!!

FIRST try and fail... prayed it would be as easy as pushing apt-get to /system/bin and executing ... it was not ... well not with this try anyhow getting a apt-get: cannot execute binary file error

Open a second adb shell and monitor dmesg | grep TOMOYO to see if the MAC is preventing you from executing files not listed in the policy. I had to muck around with it earlier today to get it to run lxterminal.

agentdr8 said:
Open a second adb shell and monitor dmesg | grep TOMOYO to see if the MAC is preventing you from executing files not listed in the policy. I had to muck around with it earlier today to get it to run lxterminal.
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will do !! first thing im doing right now is installing a virtual machine jaunty on my machine to compare and test with figure that will be the most helpful !!

Anyone working on this, be very careful, as the default adbd location is in /sbin, which symlinks to /osh/sbin.
Its possible to use adb to interact with the webtop, its probably easier for these initial command line stages too.

t0dbld said:
FIRST try and fail... prayed it would be as easy as pushing apt-get to /system/bin and executing ... it was not ... well not with this try anyhow getting a apt-get: cannot execute binary file error
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Why did you have to push apt-get to the box? apt and dpkg are already there.

I had this earlier, but reverted due to problems (I tried to uninstall rootfs). The first thing that needs to be taken care of is missing package dependencies, and file collisions. The package rootfs provides the functionality of the packages that are missing, but apt doesn't know that.
Also, consider moving /usr to the /data partition to save space. /osh is pretty cramped as is, and resolving the dependencies will fill it up pretty quickly.

droidbird said:
Why did you have to push apt-get to the box? apt and dpkg are already there.
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I saw a dpkg something cant rmember but wasnt the same thing i see no apt-get either. Also even when running in root apt-get did not exist i used echo $PATH Folowed it and did not see any apt files. If i am wrong and you kniw of there existence and how to make them execute please inform us all as if we have a working apt-get well its all but over

t0dbld said:
I saw a dpkg something cant rmember but wasnt the same thing i see no apt-get either. Also even when running in root apt-get did not exist i used echo $PATH Folowed it and did not see any apt files. If i am wrong and you kniw of there existence and how to make them execute please inform us all as if we have a working apt-get well its all but over
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it's already there:
Code:
[email protected]:/osh/usr/bin# ./apt-get moo
./apt-get moo
(__)
(oo)
/------\/
/ | ||
* /\---/\
~~ ~~
...."Have you mooed today?"...
but /osh/etc/apt/sources.list has garbage mirrors listed... They point to 10.77.32.150, which is obviously not a real IP. You could try commenting out what's in there and add in a working jaunty repo.
If you're going to use dpkg to install .debs manually, remember that they'll need to be compiled for arm processors.
Unfortunately my PC monitor doesn't do HDMI, so I can't run webtop right now. I'll play around more tomorrow when I can hook up my atrix to the TV

t0dbld said:
I saw a dpkg something cant rmember but wasnt the same thing i see no apt-get either. Also even when running in root apt-get did not exist i used echo $PATH Folowed it and did not see any apt files. If i am wrong and you kniw of there existence and how to make them execute please inform us all as if we have a working apt-get well its all but over
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Apt and dpkg have been verified in this forum to be there for a week, search gets us that as well as some of the dependency issues.
Think about what you are suggesting
Be mindful that when pointing people down the road of running apt and dpkg that the very first thing they should have is a way to recover to stock. It is quite possible and likely that running apt-get or dpkg that you may twiddle some bits on your /osh partition that make webtop fail or unusable.
Have a backout method
At minimum, I would grab a dd of your /osh partition or one from here in the forums and keep it around. In addition, I would suggest you have a way to execute dd (if that is the route you choose to go for backup) outside of the /osh partion in the event you screw /osh up and need to dd back the old working /osh. Is the dd in /bin statically linked? If so, then the plan can be as easy as copying dd to some other partition where it can be executed from. If it is not static, you need one that is or a runtime environment where it can execute.
Have a plan
Why are we trying to get apt working? Is there some goal besides filling up /osh's remaining 77MB of space?
I'll start with a couple of options:
We want a working apt so we can install a less heavy browser than firefox.
We want to be able to replace the awn launcher with something snappier and that does not require compositing, again lowering memory usage and increasing performance.
A working dependency resolving package manager is "the right thing(tm)" to do as opposed to running around with zip files. Zip file are no way to keep a working system.
Exploring and discovering is cool and very fun, but either heading that direction or suggesting others do without a plan is to invite disaster.

If you change sources.lst, please make sure you use ARM repos and not x86 repos. X86 software will break the Webtop if you load it.

For anyone that wants to try, here is the correct repo to use:
Code:
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ jaunty main security universe multiverse restricted
Always make sure /osh can mount on boot, and that /osh/sbin/adbd remains intact. Without it, you have no way of recovering

perkz said:
it's already there:
Code:
[email protected]:/osh/usr/bin# ./apt-get moo
./apt-get moo
(__)
(oo)
/------\/
/ | ||
* /\---/\
~~ ~~
...."Have you mooed today?"...
but /osh/etc/apt/sources.list has garbage mirrors listed... They point to 10.77.32.150, which is obviously not a real IP. You could try commenting out what's in there and add in a working jaunty repo.
If you're going to use dpkg to install .debs manually, remember that they'll need to be compiled for arm processors.
Unfortunately my PC monitor doesn't do HDMI, so I can't run webtop right now. I'll play around more tomorrow when I can hook up my atrix to the TV
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well i stand corrected, thank you sir.... although mine doesn't execute, still the same error:
./apt-get: cannot execute binary file

Are you sure you were in /usr/bin when you ran ./apt-get since you were specifiying that it execute from the current directory? Failing that, were you root and/or you might need to adjust your TOMOYO settings, but mine executes just fine as root as long as it is in the path and my /osh is fairly stock outside of the TOMOYO settings I have mucked with and a couple of other changes like adding a password for adas. If you still have problems, can you reload your /osh and start fresh?

i was in right dir , i am reboot it all now and will start over

Suggestion to anyone working this, take a dd copy of /dev/block/mmcblk0p13, and use losetup to mount it on /osh when experimenting.
Edit: the kernel lacks a loop device, working on that now.

t0dbld said:
OK now that the first hard part is over (getting Webtop running with out dock) now its time to push this to the limits ... I am Currently working on getting apt-get installed and running on Jaunty ... I would love to get some help with all this, obviousy this wont replace my laptop or Desktop, but it would be nice to know that anywhere i am i have a fully function linux machine in my pocket... so lets keep up the good work and push forward, CHARGE !!!
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When you say " but it would be nice to know that anywhere i am i have a fully function linux machine in my pocket" do you mean being able to run Jaunty on just the phone itself, not hooked up to a dock? Or do you mean hooked up to a dock, just Jaunty replacing Webtop?

BravoMotorola said:
When you say " but it would be nice to know that anywhere i am i have a fully function linux machine in my pocket" do you mean being able to run Jaunty on just the phone itself, not hooked up to a dock? Or do you mean hooked up to a dock, just Jaunty replacing Webtop?
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well i dont own a dock but i do not plan on running jaunty on a 4" screen

t0dbld said:
well i dont own a dock but i do not plan on running jaunty on a 4" screen
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Yea thats what I thought. That would be sweet though. People think I'm crazy when I run Win95 on my phone, I think it's awesome though. So Jaunty or just Webtop IMO would be REALLY awesome to run on the little 4 inch screen! But most people just think it's a stupid, and pointless idea

shawnbuck said:
Suggestion to anyone working this, take a dd copy of /dev/block/mmcblk0p13, and use losetup to mount it on /osh when experimenting.
Edit: the kernel lacks a loop device, working on that now.
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The loop devices are in /dev/block/loop[X].

[TUTORIAL] The Step-By-Step guide to build Cyanogenmod7 for the LG Optimus 2X

aMpeX proudly presents:
The Step-By-Step guide for building CM7
for the Optimus 2X​
Disclaimer:
I'm taking no responsibility for any damage that might occur to your phone or your PC
This guide illustrates how to setup an UBUNTU 11.04 equipped PC to build CM7 from source
It does not provide any support beyond that operating system, so if you insist on using other
Linux distributions, either adapt the guide yourself or look elsewhere.
Moreover I'm not providing any support for any problems that might occur during the course
of this guide, if they are not introduced by faults within the guide itself. I will only
troubleshoot the activities that this guide is based upon and won't be able to help with your
general linux problems. Feedback however is greatly appreciated.
Reposting this on other forums:
Feel free to post this guide on other forums. I'd like to be given credit though. Thanks
I am new to this myself, but I thought I'd share my findings after successfully building my first kang.
News & changelog:
v0.92 2011/06/01 Fix:
Added "change directory" before init repository (thanks to peewster)
v0.91 2011/05/31 Fix:
Fixed PATH exports (thanks to bhanvadia)
v0.9 2011/05/31 Initial release:
Still much formatting to be done, typos possible. Leave me some feedback if you encounter them.
Alright, so you want to build your own CM7 KANG's ?
Step 0: The starting point + info
When you start this guide, I assume that you just installed your Ubuntu 11.04 copy to your PC and set up all the drivers to your hearts content.
All commands are supplied, as they would be typed in from a USER ACCOUNT, if you operate from the root account, you will
have to add /home/<yourusername> to the most commands. I suggest, after performing the actions required by root, that you log out by typing
Code:
exit
What you need:
A working copy of Cyanogenmod7 installed on your phone
A PC with Ubuntu 11.04 installed (NOTE: If you're about to install Ubuntu from scratch, use the 64Bit version.
I can build CM7 on a 32Bit OS just fine. But AOSP for example won't build beyond Froyo on 32Bit.
At least 20GB of free space (including space required for the operating system itself)
A considerably fast internet connection (syncing the repo takes everal Gbs)
At least 3 hours of time.
All done? Then let's get started:
Step 1: Install the Java JDK
Go to System → Administration → Synaptics Package Manager
Here, we have to enable the partner repositories.
Go to Settings → Repositories → Other Software → Tick Canonical Partners and hit Close
Now push the „Reload“ button, and use the Search button to find the sun-java6-jdk package
tick the box in front of it and choose „Mark for installation“ and accept the following dialogue.
Click the „Apply“ button. Accept the dialogues, you now have the Java JDK installed.
Step 2: Install the Android SDK
Go here and download this.
Extract the archive to a directory of your choice.
Open a Terminal, navigate to the „tools“ subfolder and run the AVD Manager using ./android
In the new Window hit „Available Packages“ tick the „Android Repository“ and select „Install selected“
Once thats done, close everything up, time for step 3.
Step 3: Set up udev
The description from the CyanogenMod wiki struck me as being a slightly bit overkill, and, while it might be necessary for other devices, for LG phones this works just fine:
Create a new file on your desktop named
Code:
99-android.rules
and fill them with the following content:
Code:
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="1004", MODE="0666"
This will enable the debugging for LG devices, if you have time, it won#t hurt to add the other vendors. Just add another line
like above and replace the „1004“ with the appropriate vendor ID from http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/device.html (scroll to the bottom)
Log in as root using
Code:
sudo su
and paste our file to
Code:
/etc/udev/rules.d
using the terminal (cp)
Set permissions for the file using
Code:
chmod a+r /etc/udev/rules.d/99-android.rules
Now would probably be a good time to check if adb is working correctly.
But first, lets update the PATH so we can type „adb“ anywhere on the file system.
Navigate to your user home directory, press CTRL+H to show hidden files and edit the
Code:
.bashrc
file by adding the following
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export PATH="/home/<yourusername>/<path to the android SDK >/platform-tools/:${PATH}"
export PATH="/home/<yourusername>/bin/:${PATH}"
(The 2nd line is necessary for later)
NOTE:This only enable the use of adb everywhere when logged in with your username. When working as root, you'll have
to add a separate line with /home/<yourusername> in front of the path above.
You have to log out and in again for the changes to take effect.
Now check if you can see your phone with
Code:
adb devices
Alright, still awake? Good, because now it gets interesting
Step 4: Install build packages and create directories
Since we already installed the JDK this command differs a bit from the Cyanogen Wiki:
For 32 and 64 Bit
Code:
sudo apt-get install git-core gnupg flex bison gperf libsdl1.2-dev libesd0-dev libwxgtk2.6-dev squashfs-tools build-essential zip curl libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev pngcrush schedtool
For 64 Bit only
Code:
sudo apt-get install g++-multilib lib32z1-dev lib32ncurses5-dev lib32readline5-dev gcc-4.4-multilib g++-4.4-multilib
Now we need 2 directories
Code:
mkdir -p ~/bin
mkdir -p ~/android/system
Almost there ….
Step 5: Install the repository
Now we need our repo binary:
Code:
curl https://dl-ssl.google.com/dl/googlesource/git-repo/repo > ~/bin/repo
chmod a+x ~/bin/repo
(credits to p.valenta for notifying me of the adress change)
NOTE: You may need to reboot now
Change to your previously created directory:
Code:
cd ~/android/system/
Initialize the repository:
Code:
repo init -u git://github.com/CyanogenMod/android.git -b gingerbread
Enter your Name, eMail adress and select if you want colors or not.
AND NOW THE FINALE
Code:
repo sync -j16
Get yourself a BIG coffee, because this is going to take MUCH MUCH time, because basically you are now checking out all there is to CyanogenMod.
But wait, we're not done yet. Hang on
Step 6: Getting proprietary files for the Optimus 2X
For this step, you need an O2X with a running Cyanogenmod build, so if you're still on stock, this is the time to flash Cyanogenmod for the first time.
Connect your phone to your PC via USB and
navigate to the device tree in your repo folder:
Code:
cd ~/android/system/device/lge/p990/
and run
Code:
./extract-files.sh
This will extract some libs from your device. But sadly, not all of them (build will still fail) but we will fix this now.
Go to
Code:
https://github.com/koush/proprietary_vendor_lge/tree/gingerbread/p990
and click the download button on the right.
Extract the „p990“ folder located in the subfolder
Code:
/koush-proprietary_vendor_lge-a43238f/
in the archive to
Code:
~/android/system/vendor/lge/
Step 7: Get latest ROMManager
I know I must be annoying the sh** out of you by now, but hang in there
Code:
~/android/system/vendor/cyanogen/get-rommanager
Step 8: BUILD F***ING EVERYTHING
Now this is what you've been waiting for huh?
Sync the repository again:
Code:
cd ~/android/system/
repo sync
Build the ROM
Code:
. build/envsetup.sh && brunch p990
Wait
When everything is finished, your KANG will be stored in
Code:
~/android/system/out/target/product/p990/
And THATS IT!
Congratulations, you have just built your own CM7 KANG, don't forget to share it to other nightly testers
Cheers aMpeX

Useful stuff and tools:
SH script by bhanvadia, tailored to the directories introduced by this tutorial:
Download here
Extract anywhere and make it executable by typing
Code:
chmod +x kang.sh
Create shortcut to the output directory of your KANGs
Type
Code:
ln -s ~/android/system/out/target/product/p990/ <your desired shortcut location>

nice guide, really liked it.
too bad there were none when I started making my kangs.
btw: I use mac it is bit different for mac. but nothing its missing.
Here is file you keep on you desktop to make it work without any typing of commands after you setup your computer working directory as per guide by aMpeX.
and check post #2 for making that file executable.....
kang.sh

bhanvadia said:
nice guide, really liked it.
too bad there were none when I started making my kangs.
btw: I use mac it is bit different for mac. but nothing its missing.
add "~/android/bin/" to path too so you can "repo sync" from anywhere.
just a suggestion... can upload build.sh file on here to make it easy.
something like
1. for clean and build
2. for repo sync
open file and press your options.
thats what I use...
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That's why the guide states its for ubuntu. I found that even the Cyanogenmod Wiki entries don't work completely for the latest ubuntu (with g++ and gcc 4.3 not being available anymore, also hat huge problems with the java jdk at first)
I'll add the additional PATH variables as you suggested. Thank you.

aMpeX said:
That's why the guide states its for ubuntu. I found that even the Cyanogenmod Wiki entries don't work completely for the latest ubuntu (with g++ and gcc 4.3 not being available anymore, also hat huge problems with the java jdk at first)
I'll add the additional PATH variables as you suggested. Thank you.
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Here is file you keep on you desktop to make it work without any typing of commands after you setup your computer working directory as per guide by aMpeX.
PS: aMpeX can you just test that file??? just repo sync or rom manager update options.

awesome guide !!! thanks aMpeX !

seems to be working, after you chmod+x the sh file that is. My Repo Sync is stuck at 1%, but I doubt its related to your file.
I'll add it to the 2nd post

aMpeX said:
seems to be working, after you chmod+x the sh file that is. My Repo Sync is stuck at 1%, but I doubt its related to your file.
I'll add it to the 2nd post
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modified my mac file i use to fit to your setup of directories, just changed directories. ...
yeah then it would work, hope it make it more easy
GET the KANGs flowing...........

aMpeX said:
Useful stuff and tools:
SH script by bhanvadia, tailored to the directories introduced by this tutorial:
Download here
Extract anywhere and make it executable by typing
Code:
chmod +x kang.sh
Create shortcut to the output directory of your KANGs
Type
Code:
ln -s ~/android/system/out/target/product/p990/
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Download link is sending to wrong post still....
now it should work like this....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14310172&postcount=5
copy
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14310172&postcount=5

Can you please also state that it only works on 64bit builds of ubuntu and not 32bit...

Renegade_Rulez said:
Can you please also state that it only works on 64bit builds of ubuntu and not 32bit...
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Aside from what you can read on the net, my KANGs build perfectly fine on Ubuntu 32Bit
No reason to not install 64Bit though. I'll add a remark in the first post.
Edit: After some asking and digging, read this:
http://twitter.com/#!/CM_arcee/status/75677847712309249
So while standard Gingerbread cannot be built by 32Bit, the CyanogenMod7 repository can.

is this meant to download a lot of stuff for different phones? mine is downloading a lot of stuff at step 5 and it's taking forever..

Imperticus said:
is this meant to download a lot of stuff for different phones? mine is downloading a lot of stuff at step 5 and it's taking forever..
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It will download files for each and every phones supported by CyanogenMod, thats why its called cyanogen repo, not just P990 repo, but mostly you will use stuff thats required by your phone.
and its suggested to have 15 - 20 GB free, as it takes a lot....
3.5 GB is just "out" folder when it compiles for one device (P990)......

bit of a noob.. done everything..when I try to make the build using build/envsetup.sh i get permission denied
Any help please?

copy/paste the command from the tutorial
there is a leading dot and space before "build
Code:
. build/envsetup,sh && brunch p990

Thank's for the tutorial but i allways get no gsm function build
logcat -b radio
RIL_REQUEST_REPORT_STK_SERVICE_IS_RUNNING error: com.android.internal.telephony.CommandException: RADIO_NOT_AVAILABLE
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or
Couldn't find 'rild' socket; retrying after timeout
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What baseband are you using? Make sure that the lge-ril.so is in your proprietary files

aMpeX said:
What baseband are you using? Make sure that the lge-ril.so is in your proprietary files
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Thank's for repy.
lge-ril.so is in and generally i flash my build coming from cyano #31 (405) and mcr18 (405)
So...405

Possibly (if you synced the proprietary repository by koush AFTER you ran extract-files.sh) your ROM still includes the lge-ril for 0218.
Try reflashing the ril with the methods provided in this forum.
Other than that, I have no idea what might be causing your problems.

old ril file from koush files do work on 405 baseband too, but you feel better performance with new ril. with old ril you may loose signals sometime.
delete your vendor/lge/p990 folder, and download again from koush's files and put it back there. make sure your directories are in order
example: for lib-ril.so in as below
like ~/android/system/vendor/lge/p990/proprietery/lib/

WebTopScripts - Fixing apt-get dependencies on WebTop

After using webtop2sd app the next step on using my webtop on motorola atrix was to start using programs like aptitude, synaptic or command line apt-get to install much more useful programs to use offline on this motorola modified ubuntu jaunty distribution.
The first problem faced was that motorola had left a lot of broken dependencies that would break webtop system if someone just try to use any automatic solution.
To help on this task i developed a bash script that fix those broken dependencies using three different approaches:
1 - The first logical step is just install the missing packages from ubuntu jaunty, taking care to not overwrite any original packages developed from motorola
2 - Since some packages were made from motorola and were already installed on webtop, the second step was creating FAKE packages to just tell apt-get that the package is already installed leaving the original motorola installed package intacted.
3 - Somehow, there is one fake package that breaks the system if is installed. For this package, the idea was backup all files provided from the package developed from motorola and install ubuntu jaunty package overwriting motorola's files. After installation restore the original files on top of ubuntu jaunty files to maintain maximum motorola original system.
After fixing apt-get broken dependencies the use of apt-get could upgrade original motorola`s file. To avoid that there is another script that mark to HOLD version installed. Doing that, it is more difficult to normal users to upgrade packages that would overwrite motorola packages.
Now let's explain how to use WebTopScripts.
Requirements:
* Rooted Atrix.
* Working WebTop after webtop2sd modifications.
* webtop configurator running and preliminaries fix applied from this program (most of all corrections are related to sources.list).
* basic skills to run bash scripts and commands from terminal command line
* working lxterminal program on webtop
Install Script on your Atrix:
* Download file from this thread and save on your download folder (/mnt/sdcard/download)
* run these commands on lxterminal:
Until version 1.6:
Code:
cp /mnt/sdcard/download/webtopscripts-1.4.tar ~/
cd ~
sudo tar -xvf ~/webtopscripts-1.4.tar
sudo chmod -R 777 WebTopScripts
bash WebTopScripts/setup.sh
After version 1.7:
Code:
cp /mnt/sdcard/download/webtopscripts-1.7.tar ~/
cd ~
sudo tar -Pxvf ~/webtopscripts-1.7.tar
cd /osh/usr/share/
sudo chmod -R 777 WebTopScripts
bash WebTopScripts/setup.sh
Run Scripts to fix apt-get:
Until version 1.6:
Code:
cd ~
bash WebTopScripts/fix-apt-get.sh
After version 1.7 execute this command and choose options from menu:
Code:
webtopscripts
Just use this script with care, and at your own risk, because apt-get may break your system.
Using webtop2sd you may easily recover from original webtop but since your are on a rooted device all caution is needed.
Good luck and enjoy.
New repository for updated versions on: webtopscripts google code
Version 1.5 released 10/01/2012
Version 1.6 released 11/01/2012
Version 1.7 released 24/01/2012
Many thanks to donation made by:
amenditman
...
Please feel free to contribute on WebTopScripts Project on Google Code

Install script to help use of dpkg -i xx.deb command
If you want to use some functions provided from WebTopScrips to install packages directly from deb files like command "sudo /usr/bin/dpkg -i --root=/osh <<package_deb_file.deb>>", you may run the code:
Code:
cd ~
bash WebTopScripts/scripts/install.sh <<package_name>>
Just need to make sure to write proper settings on file:
Code:
cd ~
leafpad WebTopScripts/scripts/config.txt
Example of config.txt (You just need to include dependencies that are not on webtop yet) :
[gksu]
site="http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23917569/gksu_2.0.2-1ubuntu2_armel.deb"
file="gksu_2.0.2-1ubuntu2_armel.deb"
depends="libgksu2-0;gnome-keyring"
[libgksu2-0]
site="http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25028748/libgksu2-0_2.0.9-1ubuntu3_armel.deb"
file="libgksu2-0_2.0.9-1ubuntu3_armel.deb"
depends=""
[gnome-keyring]
site="http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25333836/gnome-keyring_2.26.1-0ubuntu1_armel.deb"
file="gnome-keyring_2.26.1-0ubuntu1_armel.deb"
depends="libgcr0;libgp11-0"
[libgcr0]
site="http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25333843/libgcr0_2.26.1-0ubuntu1_armel.deb"
file="libgcr0_2.26.1-0ubuntu1_armel.deb"
depends="libgp11-0"
[libgp11-0]
site="http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25333840/libgp11-0_2.26.1-0ubuntu1_armel.deb"
file="libgp11-0_2.26.1-0ubuntu1_armel.deb"
depends=""
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To install gksu you just need to run:
Code:
cd ~
bash WebTopScripts/scripts/install.sh gksu
You may contribute with more config text for installing more packages on this thread to share with others users that do not want to use apt-get easy installation process.
Visit site bellow to find path for armel jaunty deb files on web:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/armel/
Hope to have your contribution soon.

Programs Installed after apt-get fix from WebTopScripts
I will list here all applications that were installed and how I did it after fixing apt-get.
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You my friend, have to much time on your hands.
This is freaking wicked GOD like.
Thank you !

very nice I had been working on getting dependencies t work for days and kept breaking the webtop.

I've also been working on this for days and am happy to confirm it works beautifully!

May god carry your soul to heaven when you die.
I am now completely satisfied in replacing my netbook with the lapdock

im installing gnome desktop now =D
youre the man

I think I may have just died! Awesome job.

You make my day
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Thank you everybody that tested the script. My pleasure to help and contribute.
I need your help on this issue:
Sometimes when you are installing programs, the program is not able to configute itself.
I found oout that the main problem is that some programs modified by motorola are preventing that since they don't have all functionalities that are expected from them.
For example program readlink can not be used with option -q, program sed can not be used with some optins, etc....
To fix that the only way is to overwrite motorola file with ubuntu original jaunty file. BUT that sometimes breaks the system.
Here is your possible contribuition: to find out with me wich files can be overwriting without problems.
Here is an example to how to overwrite readlink:
Code:
cd ~
bash WebTopScripts/scripts/install.sh coreutils
rm -R ~/tmp
dpkg-deb -x WebTopScripts/packages/coreutils_6.10-6ubuntu1_armel.deb ~/tmp/
sudo cp ~/tmp/bin/readlink /usr/bin/readlink
To overwrite grep we need to include this package on WebTopScripts like this:
Code:
cd ~
sudo tee -a WebTopScripts/scripts/config.txt <<EOF
[grep]
site="http://launchpadlibrarian.net/[URL="tel:19665074"]19665074[/URL]/grep_2.5.3%7Edfsg-6ubuntu1_armel.deb"
file="grep_2.5.3~dfsg-6ubuntu1_armel.deb"
depends=""
EOF
bash WebTopScripts/scripts/install.sh grep
rm -R ~/tmp
dpkg-deb -x WebTopScripts/packages/grep_2.5.3~dfsg-6ubuntu1_armel.deb ~/tmp/
sudo cp ~/tmp/bin/grep /bin/grep
sudo cp ~/tmp/bin/egrep /bin/egrep
Finally, I am open to yours suggestions ....

This looks awesome! Can't wait to try it out today. has anyone installed a working chrome browser yet?

I am trying to find a working APT source for Jaunty to test against. Anyone have a working /etc/apt/sources.list I can use?

starrwulfe said:
I am trying to find a working APT source for Jaunty to test against. Anyone have a working /etc/apt/sources.list I can use?
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Use WebTop2SD & install webtop configurator. It will fix your apt source and keys.
If you're more advanced than that and just want repo, check out old-releases.ubuntu.com as your starting fqdn.

bb12489 said:
This looks awesome! Can't wait to try it out today. has anyone installed a working chrome browser yet?
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chromium ppa doesn't have jaunty binaries so this isn't possible. You might want to look at debian webtop for chromium.

_Alex_ said:
chromium ppa doesn't have jaunty binaries so this isn't possible. You might want to look at debian webtop for chromium.
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yea i tried debian, but no one can get chrome to work on it. Displays pages for a second then craps out :/

aaron.a said:
im installing gnome desktop now =D
youre the man
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did it work ???

Does any one have sources.list for any armel chromium? I had before for i386 one daily build that could work with jaunty since will not contains many dependencies on ubuntu stuff. But that was i386, i am not familiar with armel yet.
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this is outstanding. well done.
i am one of the many that seem to have been experimenting with this and constantly breaking it. i did find however, that overwriting most of the packages that contain binaries that were included in the original rootfs (coreutils, findutils, etc) helped fix missing arguments especially when trying to build from source using apt-get.
also force overwriting locales let you rebuild a locale for your own language and gets rid of errors and some awn-manager issues due to dependencies on the locale files.
but alas, my awn-launcher is broken so i am out of action for the time being.

arvati said:
Does any one have sources.list for any armel chromium? I had before for i386 one daily build that could work with jaunty since will not contains many dependencies on ubuntu stuff. But that was i386, i am not familiar with armel yet.
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You can find and add PPA ubuntu sources from www.launchpad.net. Unfortunately, there are no armel jaunty binaries for Chromium stable, dev or beta available.

[GUIDE]BackTrack 5 Chroot (Backtop2)

[Project dormant unless someone else picks it up]
NOTE: This is a chroot for the Webtop, not the Android+VNC chroot method.
Hi everyone, this is my first guide (I'm not sure I can call it that yet, or if this is in the right section) so bear with me.
I tried the Debian chroot guide (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1093790), and I really liked the idea, but I had too many apt-get issues and it often crashed my Webtop, so I tried building my own Ubuntu Lucid chroot using rootstock, but internet didn't work.
I later saw this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1184161, but the links were dead and the scripts it referenced were out of date. I'll sort of combine the two guides here since Backtrack actually works surprisingly well.
Just on a side note though, I haven't fully tested the Backtrack tools, but the only thing I haven't found to work are the wireless tools.
Let's start!
Required:
-Rooted Atrix (with Blur based ROM)
-LXTerminal installed on Webtop
-Enough free space (around 4 GB just for room)
-7-Zip
-Some Linux/Unix distro native or in a VM
1. Install the easy-signed.zip from the Debian chroot guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1093790
but the other files aren't needed.
Make a folder called WebTopMOD (case-sensitive) on either external or internal memory for later.
2. Look here for reference: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1184161, but the links are dead. Active links are here:
Part 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?x9cgxzdx84vc6uj
Part 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?xaoidipkg1o7vgo
Part 3: http://www.mediafire.com/?po3nznbxgvdipur
Use 7-Zip to uncompress the three files (called bt.7z.001,002,003) and you'll get a bt.img.
Full bt.img in a zip:
DL from Mega or from Google Drive
3. The image isn't usable in this state yet, since the image is formatted with ext2, and we need ext3.
Copy the image over to your Linux VM or computer on a easy-to-find directory, and open up a Terminal window (usually CTRL+ALT+T).
In Terminal, type this in:
Code:
cd <directory where you put bt.img>
mkdir tmp tmpbt
sudo mount -o loop bt.img tmpbt
dd if=/dev/zero of=linuxdisk count=0 bs=1MB seek=4096 (This is the size of the chroot image you want, in MB)
mkfs.ext3 linuxdisk (just type y when it asks)
sudo mount -o loop linuxdisk tmp
sudo cp -rf tmpbt/* tmp
sudo umount tmp
sudo umount tmpbt
[Sorry, made a mistake twice] Copy the newly made linuxdisk file to a directory named WebTopMOD on your internal memory or sdcard-ext (folder and file names are case-sensitive).
4. Start Webtop, then open LXTerminal, then start the chroot by typing in:
Code:
/usr/sbin/linux
and after it loads for a bit, you'll get an xterm window with the shell for Backtrack!
If you want to quit the Gnome session, closing xterm doesn't work, since by issuing the commands to kill the webtop processes, it also kills the webtop window manager, and if you do close it there's some kind of weird glitch with a small popup window constantly disappearing and reappearing. (It'll be a WIP for now I guess, the only full solution is to reboot your Atrix). It seems to have to do with the way the linux command mounts the chroot disk under loop50, I'll try and make something to fix this later.
-----------------Extras moved below-----------------------
Pictures:
Chromium Running
BT Desktop (Gnome)
BT Desktop with AIW
THANKS TO:
k.taylor89 for the original Backtop Method
SystemR89 for the Debian chroot and scripts to make this work
The original developers of the Backtop chroot image
And any others I may have forgotten!

Extras:
If you want a GUI (Gnome):
k.taylor89 said:
You first need to kill off all the webtop crap do this by typing the following in xterm.
"ps ax|grep awn|awk '{print $1}'|xargs kill"
"ps ax|grep panel|awk '{print $1}'|xargs kill"
Then start gnome by typing "gnome-session" in xterm.
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If you want to take it step further and start Gnome after bootup, this isn't a full solution yet but you could edit your start-oshwt-1.sh and 2 scripts so that the chroot automatically starts on bootup without anything else in Webtop, and from there start gnome-session. I'm testing that now.
Installing Apps:
Since this is based off of Ubuntu Lucid, you can install anything from the Lucid repos, you just have to fix the sources list since the Backtrack sources don't seem to work.
Code:
sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.old (Backup just in case)
sudo nano -w /etc/apt/sources.list
Comment out (#) any line with the backtrack servers, and uncomment any line with the Ubuntu repos.
Press Control+X, Y, then Enter, then run apt-get update to update the repos.
Apps like Chromium install and run without a hassle (just run apt-get install chromium-browser), but I actually get the error "Bus error" for some reason when Chromium remains idle, it seems to be an unsolved bug in the version of Chromium for armel devices in the Lucid repos, if anyone else has a fix, please do tell.

First.
I think its only for lapdock ..........

3n3rg1c said:
First.
I think its only for lapdock ..........
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Oh sorry yeah I forgot to mention that. I mean I guess if you have the mod that lets you use Webtop anywhere, that'll work too.

Hi,
The "Part 3: http://www.mediafire.com/?po3nznbxgvdipu" doesn't work.
Could you fix it.
Thank you.

sintoo said:
Hi,
The "Part 3: http://www.mediafire.com/?po3nznbxgvdipu" doesn't work.
Could you fix it.
Thank you.
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Oh sorry I copied the link incorrectly, updated in OP.

i've gotten it running on my ubuntop model, when i ran it from the terminal it would not give me any issues when closing it back up. is there a way to only launch the gnome panel? running: gnome-panel in the terminal didn't work

etruj said:
i've gotten it running on my ubuntop model, when i ran it from the terminal it would not give me any issues when closing it back up. is there a way to only launch the gnome panel? running: gnome-panel in the terminal didn't work
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I'm not sure if there is a way to start just gnome panel because of the way the chroot is implemented, since to run gnome-panel, an X session must already be running within the chroot and I need to figure that out.

My first two times i lUnched the session the wallpaper would flicker and then just the panels would come up. Now i get hit with the errors and loop pop ups. Maybe there is a way to launch the session then kill everything but the panel?
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etruj said:
My first two times i lUnched the session the wallpaper would flicker and then just the panels would come up. Now i get hit with the errors and loop pop ups. Maybe there is a way to launch the session then kill everything but the panel?
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The workaround I found worked so far was to modify the start-oshwt-2 script so that it would run a very slightly modified version of the script that automatically starts gnome-session (gnome-panel alone is really stubborn, still haven't figured that out) and doesn't start whatever window manager in WebTop to avoid flickering errors and panel only errors (but of course you don't have access to anything from the actual WebTop, but you could also have start-oshwt open a Terminal window from WebTop too).

Can you attach the script?
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etruj said:
Can you attach the script?
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Just rename it to linux, and copy it to wherever you like on your Atrix. You can also copy it to a directory within your terminal path.
This isn't my script, it's from the Debian chroot, just modified to automatically start gnome-session (credit to SystemR89)
You might need to chmod +x the file.
Also, if you want to start it automatically from start-oshwt-2.sh, make sure you copy the file to a directory within the terminal path, and add the line
Code:
sfalv -i "linux"
and comment out any other line that starts a different X window manager.

running "sudo gnome-panel" gives me the panel while staying inside the original ubuntop. i think i can just swap out that one line in your script to get it working. thanks! also noticed my chrome crashes after a few minutes, ill post the error code and screen grabs soon but was wondering if you ever experienced anything like it?

etruj said:
running "sudo gnome-panel" gives me the panel while staying inside the original ubuntop. i think i can just swap out that one line in your script to get it working. thanks! also noticed my chrome crashes after a few minutes, ill post the error code and screen grabs soon but was wondering if you ever experienced anything like it?
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Yes, in fact. It's a bus error, and I tried to fix it, but the fix doesn't work (and it only seems to affect Chromium).

Sorry for bumping such an old thread, but I was wondering if anyone wanted to take this project over, since I don't have an Atrix anymore and don't have anything to work with.
Thanks.