The packages here available are basically the Maemo ones: I’ve done only few changes in the debian files to let this package build on harmattan. Its source code has not been modified at all and it can be found in the Maemo extras repository: http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/pool/fremantle-1.3/free/source/g/gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg/

The packages you need to install on the device are the following:

• gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg_0.10.9-2maemo2_armel.deb
• liboil0.3_0.3.17-1maemo3+0m6_armel.deb

If you are a developer and you found a bug you may want to install debug symbols on your device. If you are a normal user you don’t need this package at all!

If interested on the debianization of these pacakages you may want to take a look at:

• https://meego.gitorious.org/+fn-meego/meego-ux/fn-meego-mlite
• https://gitorious.org/+fn-meego/meego-ux/fn-meego-meego-ux-components
• https://gitorious.org/+fn-meego/meego-ux/fn-meego-meego-ux-theme

Here is a video of MeeGo widget gallery application running on my linux box: MeeGo UX components

#include
#include

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
QApplication a(argc, argv);

QDeclarativeView view;
view.setSource(QUrl::fromLocalFile(“myqmlfile.qml”));
view.setAttribute(Qt::WA_TranslucentBackground);
view.viewport()->setAutoFillBackground(false);

view.show();
return a.exec();
}

Maybe there are other ways like installing the flash plugin from some ubuntu unofficial repositories.. but I preferred this way.

Enjoy!

Here are the steps I followed to have it in place:

On the server side:

1. apt-get install apache2 git-core gitweb

2. mkdir  /var/cache/git

Now we can create our first remote repository:

1. cd /var/cache/git/repository-name.git

2. git –bare init

3. chown your _ssh_username /var/cache/git/repository-name.git -R

4. chgrp your _ssh_username /var/cache/git/repository-name.git -R

So we have initialized an empty git repository  and we are now ready to use it!

On your local machine:

1.  git clone ssh://your_ssh_username@remote_server/var/cache/git/repository-name.git

2. cd repository-name

Let’s now try to do a simple basic operation, like adding a file to the repository

1. touch HELLO

2. git add HELLO

3. git commit -a -m “Add HELLO”

4. git push origin master

Moreover, since we installed gitweb, it shows our commits. Gitweb is available at  http://remote_server/gitweb

• sudo -s
• apt-get install kernel-source kernel-package libncurses5-dev fakeroot
• cd /usr/src
• tar xvjf tar xjvf linux-source-`uname -r`.tar.bz2
• ln -s /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.31 linux
• cd /usr/src/linux
• cp /boot/config-`uname -r` /usr/src/linux/.config
• make menuconfig
• Now you can modify the kernel configuration…
• make-kpkg clean
• fakeroot make-kpkg –initrd –append-to-version=-custom kernel_image kernel_headers

After some time you will have debian packages like: linux-image-xxx.deb linux-headers-xxx.deb in /usr/src

Use dpkg -i *.deb to install it, reboot your machine and select them in grub/lilo.

To remove it use Web interface > Administration > Commands > paste

echo "Unauthorized access is prohibited." > /tmp/loginprompt
killall dropbear
dropbear -b /tmp/loginprompt -r /tmp/root/.ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key -d /tmp

and press "Save Startup" button.
Power light will blink for 30 seconds. After that sshd will show new banner.

gnuton@iron:~$ ssh root@192.168.1.1
Unauthorized access is prohibited.
root@192.168.1.1's password:

To avoid all these issues, this night I wrote a very cool script that updates  DynDNS and OpenDNS at the same time.

DynDNS allows me to have a domain like my-server.dyndns.org with a dinamic IP. OpenDNS instead after a free registration and after that I added its DNS IP to my DHCP router configuration, it offers a safe browsing to my network users protecting them from several internet threats like phishing, adult sites ecc..

My server runs this script every hours via cron.

#! /bin/bash

user=MYUSER
password=MYPASSWORD
hostname=MYDNS.MYDNS.ORG
#wildcard allowed values are NOCHG, Y, N
wildcard=NOCHG
mx=NOCHG
# Y=Yes, use it as my primary mail relay.  N=No, use it as backup MX record.
backmx=NOCHG

#current IP
currentIP=$( curl -s http://checkip.dyndns.org/ | grep -o “[[:digit:].]\+” )

#check
if [ "$currentIP" != "$(cat lastIP)" ]; then
echo IP changed to $currentIP
echo “$currentIP” > lastIP
#update OpenDNS
/usr/bin/curl -m 60 -u $user:$password ‘https://updates.opendns.com/account/ddns.php?’
#update DynDNS
curl -v -k -u $user:$password “https://members.dyndns.org/nic/update?hostname=$hostname&myip=$currentIP&wildcard=$wildcard&mx=$mx&backmx=$backmx”

else
echo IP not changed. It is still $currentIP
fi

Installing avahi is quite simple; you just need to run apt-get install avahi-daemon.
After that you can reach that machine over the net using its new domain name.
You can discover them with:
gnuton@joshua:~$ avahi-browse -a
+ vmnet8 IPv4 WOPR [00:50:56:c0:00:08] Workstation local
+ vmnet1 IPv4 WOPR [00:50:56:c0:00:01] Workstation local
+ eth1 IPv4 WOPR [00:1e:c2:be:4e:f6] Workstation local
+ eth1 IPv4 key [00:0d:60:5e:35:ab] Workstation local

In my case I have some virtual nets belong to VMWare and one wireless net on eth1.
These interfaces are using the same domain name: WOPR.local
You can see also that there is another workstation in my net.
Its domain name is key.local. That’s my home server…

What more? Avahi can also publish some services so that they are discoverable in the net.
Use case:
- I want to transfer files with Dolphin for KDE4 using ssh/scp. The target machine doesn’t have a static Ip on my net.
I can get the files that I need just opening Dolphin, clicking on the “Network” icon in the sidebar and then “Network services”.

To make discoverable the ssh service you have to:
copy the config ssh service file in the avahi configuration directory with:
cp /usr/share/doc/avahi-daemon/examples/ssh.service /etc/avahi/services/
and then you have to restart the avahi service with
/etc/init.d/avahi-daemon restart

Then you can check that everything goes okay with avahi-browse-domain utility:
root@key:/etc/avahi# avahi-browse-domains -a
+ eth0 IPv4 joshua [00:1e:c2:be:4e:f6] Workstation local
+ eth0 IPv4 key [00:0d:60:5e:35:ab] Workstation local
+ eth0 IPv4 key SSH Remote Terminal local

Here we are! The new service is in the last line!

Avahi is also available for the Meemo devices. You can install it on your N810/N800 just
running apt-get install avahi-daemon.
Note: An old post says about some problem with at the startup that have been solved.

On your linux box now you have something like this:
root@joshua:/etc/avahi# avahi-browse-domains -a
+ vmnet8 IPv4 joshua [00:50:56:c0:00:08] Workstation local
+ vmnet1 IPv4 joshua [00:50:56:c0:00:01] Workstation local
+ eth1 IPv4 joshua [00:1e:c2:be:4e:f6] Workstation local
+ eth1 IPv4 key [00:0d:60:5e:35:ab] Workstation local
+ eth1 IPv4 key SSH Remote Terminal local
+ eth1 IPv4 Nokia-N810-43-7 [00:1d:6e:9c:00:e8] Workstation local
- eth1 IPv4 Nokia-N810-43-7 [00:1d:6e:9c:00:e8] Workstation local
+ eth1 IPv4 Nokia-N810-43-7 [00:1d:6e:9c:00:e8] Workstation local
- eth1 IPv4 Nokia-N810-43-7 [00:1d:6e:9c:00:e8] Workstation local
+ eth1 IPv4 freaky [00:1d:6e:9c:00:e8] Workstation local

In this report you can see that I restarted 2 times my avahi daemon on the N810 and
the last time I changed the hostname editing /etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf

Note: the avahi utils are in a separate package: avahi-utils