chaotix
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Hi.
I received my Pandora this Tuesday and was missing apt-get. I looked into PanDebian, but although it is a nice project with the menu integration and easy installation, I didn't think the PND-way was the way to go for such a system utility. I couldn't start the applications on my desktop computer via SSH as pnd_run makes some HOME/XAUTHORITY voodoo. I also didn't like that I couldn't terminate the session without a reboot. So I turned to the one-size-fits-all chroot solution on Debian: schroot.
I compiled it for the Pandora to be installed in /opt, changed some minor stuff for better "Pandora-integration" and configured it so that newly inserted SD-Cards are automatically (un)mounted in all running chroots. (As the subtree mount options seem to be broken on the Pandora, already mounted cards have to be manually unmounted in the chroot first to be ejected.)
It doesn't make the installed applications accessible in a menu as PanDebian does, but you can start every program from a Pandora shell prompt and even associate them with filetypes in Xfce (Just use a custom command like "schroot mplayer "%s"" in the Xfce filemanager). A menu should be possible, but as I'm more a CLI kind of guy that's not really on my radar.
If someone is interested, I uploaded the package (and the current debootstrap from wheezy) with some installation instructions: http://lxtek.de./pandora/
Maybe someone finds it useful,
Lars
I received my Pandora this Tuesday and was missing apt-get. I looked into PanDebian, but although it is a nice project with the menu integration and easy installation, I didn't think the PND-way was the way to go for such a system utility. I couldn't start the applications on my desktop computer via SSH as pnd_run makes some HOME/XAUTHORITY voodoo. I also didn't like that I couldn't terminate the session without a reboot. So I turned to the one-size-fits-all chroot solution on Debian: schroot.
I compiled it for the Pandora to be installed in /opt, changed some minor stuff for better "Pandora-integration" and configured it so that newly inserted SD-Cards are automatically (un)mounted in all running chroots. (As the subtree mount options seem to be broken on the Pandora, already mounted cards have to be manually unmounted in the chroot first to be ejected.)
It doesn't make the installed applications accessible in a menu as PanDebian does, but you can start every program from a Pandora shell prompt and even associate them with filetypes in Xfce (Just use a custom command like "schroot mplayer "%s"" in the Xfce filemanager). A menu should be possible, but as I'm more a CLI kind of guy that's not really on my radar.
If someone is interested, I uploaded the package (and the current debootstrap from wheezy) with some installation instructions: http://lxtek.de./pandora/
Maybe someone finds it useful,
Lars