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Originally Posted by Suwat
Anyway, is there a way to move an application, installed under GDebi, from the SD card to the inside flash of Q7? Or do I have to uninstall it, take out the SD card and reinstall to force the app inside q7? My problem is that I have several SD cards containing e-books and comics. Comix was installed on one SD. If I changed to a new SD card, comix wouldn't be there anymore. I can copy soft.img to every card but it seems absurd. Any idea?
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I agree that you will have to either 1) force a reinstall of "package_name" using GDebi w/o the SD/SDHC installed, or 2) copy the soft.img to every SD/SDHC card from which you want to use it.
There are at least a couple of problems with the first option. Even w/o the SD/SDHC card installed, the package database on the Q7 will think that "package_name" is still installed if it was previously installed on the SD/SDHC card. You will need to to do a "sudo aptitude purge package_name" in evilvte. Once this is done, you can reinstall "package_name" using GDebi, "sudo apt-get install package_name", or "sudo aptitude install package_name" and I would urge you to use one of the "sudo" options. Another problem is simply storage space. There isn't too much NANDFlash to work with and using the above approach for every package that you want loaded on the Q7 will quickly eat it up.
Theoretically, we could develop a 3rd option which would be a customized firmware with our own mix of programs, icons, wallpaper, etc. but I don't have either the necessary knowledge of the Q7 or the Linux skill to do that.
I have tried to address the storage space problem on the Q7 by purging some existing applications and deleting files. They reappear when the SDHC card is removed and the Q7 rebooted. I assume this has something to do with the v4 firmware but it's still surprising to see the default wallpaper reappear after it has been deleted from its directory.
Do you have any idea how to address this?