OptWare for Kindle

[damaru]

hum I haven't tried the mplayer from the command line. Moc is just a nice player with a simple yet powerful interface (I use it for my audio player on my main computer) I'll check you mplayer, but I understood there wasn't any interface to the software

[sjheiss]

OK, I misunderstood what you meant by "interface". No, kinamp/mplayer does not have an interface. But, I don't see why MOC from ipkg wouldn't work. You'd just a terminal, like myts or kiterm.

[idoit]

Originally Posted by geekmaster

Optware (and a full debian chroot) worked great on the k3, but later kindles have been plenty of trouble.

I wonder when someone installs Optware in /mnt/us/ (NOT /opt partition), is there still a chance of bricking KT? <- well there is always a chance, but roughly let's say just because of disk space issue.

Originally Posted by hawhill

Note that symlinking is not needed, you can do everything with bind mounts. Also, there's no real reason to create another directory in /mnt either, it can very well be beneath /mnt/us. So you don't need writes to the root partition at all.

A request (hawhill or danik maybe?!):
I installed ipkg and 6-7 packages following the OP instructions (not danik's ones), and after removing all the packages, there are still a lot of packages left in various folders inside /opt!!! How can someone completely remove them safely? (ALSO, I believe 'ipkg remove mypkg' doesn't remove all the files it installed (which sucks) and leaves empty folders behind too!
I have attached my KT's freespace, I wonder if I am Ok, compared to other people's free spaces?

[sjheiss]

Nevermind.