Extracting tar.bz2 files on Nokia N800

How do I do this? I want to use some applications with my N800 but
there's nothing I can see that I can use for this purpose and updating
the application manager shows no useful results.

Any help appreciated.

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Whinging Courier wrote:
> How do I do this? I want to use some applications with my N800 but
> there's nothing I can see that I can use for this purpose and updating
> the application manager shows no useful results.

On the PC, you could use http://www.7-zip.org

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Whinging Courier <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> How do I do this? I want to use some applications with my N800 but
> there's nothing I can see that I can use for this purpose and updating
> the application manager shows no useful results.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>

The forums and geniuses who hang out on:
http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/index.php
are your friends. Almost anything that can be done, at the moment, with
the Nokia tablets is covered very thoroughly over there. Sign up so you
can post. It's quite harmless and sponsored by one of the best sources
for tablet and Maemo information on the net. There's even a tablet
school if you're new to the tablet.

tar xzvf cwiid-0.6.00.tar.gz

Here's an example of extracting tarball cwiid-0.6.00.tar.gz to the
location it resides in. Copy the tar to where you want its file
structure to end up, then untar the files in place and delete the tar if
you're done with it.

I'm deeply watching all the activity around using the Wii Remote with my
N800 under OS2008. It's simply amazing what can be done with this $40
gadget on the tablet and the PC. Check out Johnny Chung Lee's website at
Carnegie Mellon U:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/
With a homebrew infrared LED mounted in a 39c pen body, you can have a
$10,000 interactive whiteboard using the Wii remote's infrared camera and
Johnny's software. What you see is Linux PC based. The tablet hackers
are porting the software to Maemo OS2008. We'll have 3D video gaming
just like you see in the video in the near future, though I'm not sure
the other restaurant patrons are going to understand the Wiimote duct
taped to a Larry The Cable Guy ball cap and you bobbing and weaving
around under it playing some Doom game...hee hee.

I'm just an "still-in-school Linux user" and nowhere near the league of
the guys you meet on internettablettalk.com. They post step by step
instructions for us hangers-on so we can play with all the new bleeding
edge toys, too. It's a fantastic community of open source developers,
learning and just plain users with a problem like yours....(c;

What OS are you using? 2007 has been pretty much abandoned for OS2008.
It's hard to keep up with the goings on on maemo.org and the garage. I'm
interested in just way too many of the projects....more than I have
memory to support...(c;

My N800 has twin 16GB $59 A-Card SDs, the Nokia LD-3w BT GPS, the Nokia
BT folding keyboard, the Wii Remote and connects on the road through an
Alltel Motorola ROKR Z6m via BT DUN profile on EVDO, at least until
Verizon takes them over and ruins the company. I'm an old fart but still
enjoy the games, Garnet OS (Palm) virtual machine, Maemo
Mapper/Cumulus/Map navigation and am, thanks to the guys on the forums,
running lots of Linux software it was never meant to run.

You're already playing the finest game it plays - Xterm....(c;

Keep this thread alive. I'm a total N800 addict, here. I, originally,
bought it because it ran Skype and had a browser I could use to logon to
commercial wifi hotspots without carrying a laptop around. That got out
of hand really fast and I've addicted a lot of my friends, too. I'm not
sure that was a good thing...(c;

Nice meeting other N8xx users.....What a great little Linux box.

Larry
"Got Root?"

Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k) wrote:
> Whinging Courier wrote:
>> How do I do this? I want to use some applications with my N800 but
>> there's nothing I can see that I can use for this purpose and updating
>> the application manager shows no useful results.
>
> On the PC, you could use http://www.7-zip.org


Thank you!

Larry wrote:
> Whinging Courier <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
>
>> How do I do this? I want to use some applications with my N800 but
>> there's nothing I can see that I can use for this purpose and updating
>> the application manager shows no useful results.
>>
>> Any help appreciated.
>>
>
> The forums and geniuses who hang out on:
> http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/index.php
> are your friends. Almost anything that can be done, at the moment, with
> the Nokia tablets is covered very thoroughly over there. Sign up so you
> can post. It's quite harmless and sponsored by one of the best sources
> for tablet and Maemo information on the net. There's even a tablet
> school if you're new to the tablet.

Any learning is good learning.

> tar xzvf cwiid-0.6.00.tar.gz
>
> Here's an example of extracting tarball cwiid-0.6.00.tar.gz to the
> location it resides in. Copy the tar to where you want its file
> structure to end up, then untar the files in place and delete the tar if
> you're done with it.
>
> I'm deeply watching all the activity around using the Wii Remote with my
> N800 under OS2008. It's simply amazing what can be done with this $40
> gadget on the tablet and the PC. Check out Johnny Chung Lee's website at
> Carnegie Mellon U:
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/
> With a homebrew infrared LED mounted in a 39c pen body, you can have a
> $10,000 interactive whiteboard using the Wii remote's infrared camera and
> Johnny's software. What you see is Linux PC based. The tablet hackers
> are porting the software to Maemo OS2008. We'll have 3D video gaming
> just like you see in the video in the near future, though I'm not sure
> the other restaurant patrons are going to understand the Wiimote duct
> taped to a Larry The Cable Guy ball cap and you bobbing and weaving
> around under it playing some Doom game...hee hee.

<Whooossshhhhh>

> I'm just an "still-in-school Linux user" and nowhere near the league of
> the guys you meet on internettablettalk.com. They post step by step
> instructions for us hangers-on so we can play with all the new bleeding
> edge toys, too. It's a fantastic community of open source developers,
> learning and just plain users with a problem like yours....(c;
>
> What OS are you using? 2007 has been pretty much abandoned for OS2008.
> It's hard to keep up with the goings on on maemo.org and the garage. I'm
> interested in just way too many of the projects....more than I have
> memory to support...(c;

I bought mine around six months ago and upgraded to OS2008 almost
straight away.

> My N800 has twin 16GB $59 A-Card SDs, the Nokia LD-3w BT GPS, the Nokia
> BT folding keyboard, the Wii Remote and connects on the road through an
> Alltel Motorola ROKR Z6m via BT DUN profile on EVDO, at least until
> Verizon takes them over and ruins the company. I'm an old fart but still
> enjoy the games, Garnet OS (Palm) virtual machine, Maemo
> Mapper/Cumulus/Map navigation and am, thanks to the guys on the forums,
> running lots of Linux software it was never meant to run.

Man, all I do is take it with me for web browsing, I only set up email a
couple of weeks ago, I'm not at all that hardcore about it, I just
didn't want to lump a lapytop round everywhere, much like yourself.

> You're already playing the finest game it plays - Xterm....(c;

I notice I have that but don't know what it is. I don't think I want to
know, either ;-)

> Keep this thread alive. I'm a total N800 addict, here. I, originally,
> bought it because it ran Skype and had a browser I could use to logon to
> commercial wifi hotspots without carrying a laptop around. That got out
> of hand really fast and I've addicted a lot of my friends, too. I'm not
> sure that was a good thing...(c;
>
> Nice meeting other N8xx users.....What a great little Linux box.

Whinging Courier <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> Man, all I do is take it with me for web browsing, I only set up email a
> couple of weeks ago, I'm not at all that hardcore about it, I just
> didn't want to lump a lapytop round everywhere, much like yourself.
>
>> You're already playing the finest game it plays - Xterm....(c;
>
> I notice I have that but don't know what it is. I don't think I want to
> know, either ;-)
>
>

There are many great user improvements you can make to the tablet if you
just look around the OS2008 download section of maemo.org, all free.

I'd like to recommend a few for you that are very handy, indeed.

OM Weather - desktop weather forecasts for the next few days. Pick your
favorite weather stations anywhere in the world.

Personal Menu - VAST improvement in starting applications from the layers
Nokia uses. Using its Control Panel controls, you add the programs YOU use
most and when you press the Personal Menu button up there on the upper
left, PM displays them with their icons for very easy, one touch startup.

mplayer - The tablet's Media Player doesn't play a lot of audio/video
formats. mplayer, ported from Linux to the tablet, plays them all with a
very easy, simple, non-graphical interface that uses little resources.

MyTube - Searches, lists and plays with mplayer full screen, dithered,
YouTube videos vastly better than any browser. It also stores what you
watch on your memory card so you can show someone else without downloading
the same video again. Storage is automatic.

Maemo Recorder - a simple audio recorder that uses the mic to create audio
recordings of anything you like. N800's mic is very sensitive so Maemo
Recorder makes a great way to take notes, record meetings, gather evidence
while you're being threatened, etc. Stores automatically to wherever you
like, but you'd better set it for one of the memory cards.

Streamtuner - All the Shoutcast and Xiph servers radio stations nicely
sorted by genre with its own bookmark system for your favorite stations
like a browser uses for webpages, but for internet radio/video stations.

Evince - Ebook Reader

Xournal - Just like having a big legal pad you write on with the stylus for
notetaking, making drawings, anything you can do with a legal pad. It's
even lined...(c; It will also import and export to/from the workspace
standard Adobe PDF files which you can email to anyone. You take notes in
a meeting to Xournal in Des Moines, meeting ends, you convert your notes to
PDF, email to your office right off your pad for immediate action. It's
one of the neatest office tools I've ever had.

A friend who is a construction superintendent is using Xournal on the road.
He calls his secretary and has her scan the schematic/drawings for this
troublesome AC unit into a PDF file. She emails it to his N800 and he
boots it in Xournal. He takes the stylus, makes notes and drawings and
circles right on the added layer of the PDF file telling the office what
needs to happen to fix this problem. He saves his Xournal to memory card,
converts the output back to PDF and emails the PDF to his planner and
anyone else who needs to take action....from the rooftop of the new
building at the unit, itself. They massage his orders, then call him back
with a status. He no longer has to drag a laptop up on the roof or has to
go down to his truck and print the drawing to haul back up to the roof,
wasting time. They dumped the FAX machine scanner in the truck.

rdesktop - Maemo Linux's port of Linux rdesktop to control Windows PCs by
remote control over the internet. You create a password protected user on
your PC and turn Remote Desktop on in Windows. You create a ROUTE through
your system router so that port 3389 goes to the PC you want to answer the
call from the net. You logon by clicking OK from rdesktop's pre-configured
logon page it remembers between uses...one click. The user desktop of your
Windows PC REPLACES the Maemo desktop on your tablet. You are now in
control as that user from any internet connection on the planet...right on
your little tablet's 800 pixel screen. Configure this special user for an
800 pixel screen. You can now run programs directly on your PC, but you
can't watch videos because that requires too much update bandwidth over the
serial connection the net provides and you can't hear your PC's speakers
because you are 85 miles away and they won't turn up loud enough without
waking the neighbors. I run my PC email system from rdesktop wherever I
am. ONE email client, ONE email database safely stored on the UPS-powered
PC...no syncing, fighting to logon, being told no because you're NOT on
your PC from your ISP's email server. You ARE!

To run rdesktop, you can use the onscreen keyboard of your desktop Windows
PC with your stylus. That works, if you don't have to do much typing.
But, to type this message over rdesktop from the lunch stop, buy the Nokia
Bluetooth Folding Keyboard and let IT be the N800's real keyboard. As you
can see, typing this long message wasn't any problem while checking in from
free wifi at the pizza shop.

Abiword - Linux's Full featured word processor ported to the tablet. This
is one piece of a whole free office suite that includes Abiword, Pnumeric
(massive spreadsheet), etc., all ported from Linux's Office Suite.
Sometimes you need a real word processor....it's free.

All these are free, easily installed with the green arrow install from the
user side of Maemo.org's OS2008 download section. There's lots more great
stuff like Maemo Mapper, like having Google Earth in your pocket, but we'll
load that later...(c;

Lunch was great....back to work....(d^