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Originally Posted by netean
I battled trying to install Duokan on my newly replaced Kindle (3.2.1) none of the binaries worked, tried the full duokan and last week's release of Duokan lite (which now supports epub as well I noticed)
In the end I discovered that you can SSH into the kindle using the usb networking hack and run a script to tell the kindle to run Duokan installer..
[ /mnt/us/DK_System/install/install.sh]
Despite being a geek, didn't really fancy the hassle of that so wrote my first launchpad script to do the same thing:
I say made, I actually completely copies the one that was made for the updated text to speech mod, so thanks to him in fairness.
Create a new text file, call it whatever you like.ini.. mine is duokan.ini
copy this into it
[Actions];; run Duokan installer F D = !sh /mnt/us/DK_System/install/install.sh &
save it in the launchpad folder, restart the kindle (I had to restart a couple of times)
Hit Shift F D
it *should* say success at the bottom of the screen. Restart the kindle from the main menu and, fingers crossed it should restart and reboot into Duokan.
Oddly, I noticed that doing so also mashed up my text to speech mod -may have just been me though?
So my kindle now has:
custom fonts,
custom screensavers
launchpad
fbreader
better Text to speech engine
Dictaphone mod, and
dual boots into Duokan.
won't say it wasn't all a massive fiddle, because it is, but I'm very happy now
If I can, happy to help anyone else.
Iain
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I can confirm it worked for me this way. After half a year of regular Kindle use (only jailbreak and launchpad, Cool Reader, dictaphone and some TTS mod) finally decided to install Duokan.
Kindle Keyboard 3g (US, with adverts), version 3.3 (updated from 3.2.1) - I was getting concerned that this version would not accept Duokan but it did.
Duokan is absolutely awesome, hats off to the developers, regular Kindle will be of use only for browsing (when in need for that) and for purchasing the Amazon content.
Thanks for the guidance!
