I'm a new iLiad user. I have requested the shell access, connected, downloaded and installed the thing from iRex. Now is there anything that will show that the shell access install is successful? It said downloading, then zipping/installing or something, said complete and then restarted.
I then donloaded the dillio browser, connection manager, manifest and libXp.so.6, unzipped it all and transferred to main memory of iLiad all as described here:
https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Iliad_Software#dillo. But the link to libXp.so.6 that was given on that page is no longer available.
As a result I went here(page 4 of this thread):
and downloaded the new version.
And before all of the above, I started my donloads from this thread:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...l+access+iliad
So all I want to say is: I love my iLiad and I'm really impressed by all the effort of the developers among the iLiad users. But sincerely speaking it seems all you guys are doing these things for yourselves not for the rest of us that do not know anything about programming/scripts/linux etc.
Why do isn't everything organized into a single page with a clear step by step guide. The entry on the wiki page is good, but one of the links (for libXp.so.6) is not working.
I wish there is a single page dedicated for each application, so that once there is any new version, the old version is deleted immediately. Also, all supporting files should be mentioned withing that same page. So that someone who has not been following these multiple threads for the past 3yrs would easily understand what's going on.
You see I started with a thread. Read all the posts only to realize later that that thread is for an old version of the application. I followed the newer one with some inactive links. I then followed another one that contains a directory with several files with weired extensions that I have no clue what opens them etc.
Consider the way Joomla extensions are organized. You don't have to follow several links to find all you need about an extension. Everything is organized within a single page. Once there is an update, anything old is ramoved.
Consider for instance in one of the links I followed to install this browser, it was mentioned regarding the libXp.so.6:
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With 2.9 firmware there is no libXp.so.6, so the bundled xset program won't run. You can find a tarfile with it here and copy it into the dillo/lib directory.
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Now the 2.12v is available. What if it already updated with this file, but i don't know? I followed the link and the link is dead. I then search online, only to find unlimited results most of which look like this:
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/se...ery=libXp.so.6
I then get confused and wouldnt know waht to do, cos I don't have the vaguest idea what all that means.
I hope you guys understand what I mean. It's really painful to make all these things work on the iLiad for people like me. It took me days to make the wireless connection work. I tried installing the minimo browser, without any success. I also tried installing the file manager by Adam B., also didnt succeed. I think the only thing I managed to install was a mobipocket dictionay lol. So can u guys please take some time and organize your invaluable works, so we could all benefit from it, please?
Thank you all and I wish all of you luck in your various endeavours.