Maemo Howto

This is a brief tutorial that explains how to setup the Maemo 4.1 (Diablo) SDK in a distribution agnostic way. For more information check homepage, installation instructions, and reference manual.

Scratchbox

If you don't need a proxy, remove the 'export http_proxy' commands. This would install scratchbox on '/opt/scratchbox'. Remember to change your username.

export http_proxy=http://myproxy:8080/
wget http://repository.maemo.org/stable/diablo/maemo-scratchbox-install_4.1.sh
chmod a+x ./maemo-scratchbox-install_4.1.sh
su
export http_proxy=http://myproxy:8080/
./maemo-scratchbox-install_4.1.sh -s /opt/scratchbox -u felipec
exit

Maemo SDK

Then it's time to install Maemo 4.1:

wget http://repository.maemo.org/stable/diablo/maemo-sdk-install_4.1.sh
chmod a+x ./maemo-sdk-install_4.1.sh
./maemo-sdk-install_4.1.sh -s /opt/scratchbox

Usage

Now in order to init scratchbox:

su
/opt/scratchbox/sbin/sbox_ctl start
exit

And to log-in:

/opt/scratchbox/login

Remember to de-init scratchbox before rebooting and specially before removing '/opt/scratchbox':

su
/opt/scratchbox/sbin/sbox_ctl stop
exit

Notes

You might get an error like:

Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1192: dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1192: dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!

In that case run the following:

su
echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/vdso_enabled
exit

For more information regarding vdso issues please check scratchbox's wiki.