[mpcollins]

Ok, I've actually gotten quite far this time, thanks. I am down to these final steps:
9) Open IPK Packager, browse to the "files" folder referenced in STEP 1
10) Package it up, install through WebOS Quick Install (DO NOT USE the webOS SDK)

I don't know how I am supposed be executing/running this installer. Is this Java? I have no idea how I am supposed to 'package' my newly built folder, since I know absolutely nothing about Java as of yet. Could I get some assistance on these last steps, please?

Thanks ....

[thejaredhuang]

I have the IPK made and I installed it via Quick Install. The phone restarts after its done but I can't find the emulator anywhere.

[mpcollins]

How did you create your IPK, please?

[mikematias123]

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[ChasT]

No, that is illegal.
It took me about half an hour to do it. It worked first time. All you need is a rar reading package.

[ChasT]

I have the IPK made and I installed it via Quick Install. The phone restarts after its done but I can't find the emulator anywhere.

You have to download it via the app catalog.

[ChasT]

How did you create your IPK, please?

Use the ipk tool you are told to download in the instructions post.
Then point it towards the file/folder as per the instructions and then hit enter or pack or whatever, I'm not near my PC currently.

[st0mp]

So I'm trying to get Classic working again on my Verizon Pre Plus with 2.1.1 and I'm following Author's post #146 but I don't fined these files in any of the 2.x doctors.
/usr/lib/palmos/.copyclassicapps.sh
/usr/lib/palmos/.preferences-default
/usr/lib/palmos/.prepare.sh
/usr/lib/palmos/.uprepare.sh
Anyone have a suggestion.

[mpcollins]

Use the ipk tool you are told to download in the instructions post.
Then point it towards the file/folder as per the instructions and then hit enter or pack or whatever, I'm not near my PC currently.

Ok, I started over (yet again) and I am down to the final step: building the IPK. I downloaded Ipk Packager.jar and unzipped it into folder Ipk Packager. I reread every post from #146 on, hoping that there would be fairly explicit instructions on explaining how I am 'point' whatever towards what I am assuming is my 'file/folder'. I've looked over the web pages associated with ipkgBuilder. My problem is that I know absolutely nothing about Java so I have no idea what steps I am supposed to be taking to get class IpkgBuilder to run. Can someone explain this process fairly simply or must I be resigned to waiting until however long it takes me to get through some beginning Java book? Right now, I think that all I need assistance in is how to go about executing the command to run the Packager. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated, since as I have said, I know nothing about executing Java.

Thanks.

[firun]

Will the instruction written in post #146 work on Veer? Or I even can not try to make it work on device with different screen resolution prior to Pre?

[cap]

yeah it works. I have Classic on my Veer.

The nav buttons and quick launch buttons are changed, but it works pretty well considering.

[mpcollins]

Ok, so I found a post from 2009 about creating an ipk file. I'll see how far I get with that.

[mpcollins]

So far, I'm only finding references to WebOS 3.0 SDK downloads. Will this one work to create an ipk for a 2.0 app? If not, where can I locate a download for a 2.0 SDK, please?

[mpcollins]

Is there someone out there that would be willing to work with me? Walking me through this step by step, putting up with all of my stupid questions? I cannot follow all of Mr Thorton's instructions because frankly I don't have the knowledge to finish this. Anyone out there willing to put up with my questions?

OR ... Better yet ...

Does anyone here work with Progect and PDesk from PalmOS? That is the last thing that I need to get migrated over. PDesk is no longer working on my PC so I can't translate them items I had in it. And, I currently don't have a PalmOS device that I can load Progect onto so that I can open these items. Any suggestions, other than buying a used device, that is?

Thanks

[ChasT]

Ok, so I found a post from 2009 about creating an ipk file. I'll see how far I get with that.

You are making this far too complicated. All you need is in #146. You do not need to know anything about Java.
When I said "point it at" what I meant was something like File/Open/Ok. The whole process is just a case of moving a few files around and doing very basic File/Menu operations, it's really that simple. No programming knowledge needed.

[sketch42]

Updated STEPS:

1) Download the attached ZIP; Extract it; Open the "files" folder;

And create a new folder and call it

usr

create another new folder inside usr & call it

lib

create another new folder inside usr & call it

bin

create another new folder inside usr & call it

share

create another new folder inside share & call it

dbus-1

create another new folder inside dbus-1 & call it

system-services

create another new folder inside system-services & call it

com.motionapps.palmos.service

Go back to the share folder and create another folder inside it called

ls2

create another new folder inside ls2 & call it

roles

create another new folder inside roles & call it

prv

create another new folder inside prv & call it

com.motionapps.palmos.json

create another new folder inside lib & call it

palmos

create another new folder inside palmos & call it

rom0

2) stay in the rom0 folder

3)Download the Pre/Pre+ 1.4.5 webOS Doctor

4) Extract the doctors as follows:
4a) download & install 7zip
4b) Right click on the 1.4.5 doctor and use 7zip to open the archive.

5) navigate through the archive to the folder below. (note you will initially see no folders in the doctor just a folder named "..." , click on that folder and continue to /resources/webOS.tar/webOS/nova-cust-image-castle.rootfs.tar.gz/nova-cust-image-castle.rootfs/usr/lib/palmos/rom0/
5a) copy ROM.bin to the rom0 folder you created earlier
5b) after ROM.bin is copied go all the way back in this folder until you are in the lib folder you created.

6) Download the 2.0.1 doctor
6a) navigate through the archive to the folder below. (note you will initially see no folders in the doctor just a folder named "..." , click on that folder and continue to /resources/webOS.tar/webOS/nova-cust-image-roadrunner.rootfs.tar.gz/nova-cust-image-roadrunner.rootfs/usr/lib

6c) copy all the files listed in step 6 from this post http://forums.precentral.net/showthr...76#post2901376 and put and file that came from usr/lib in the lib folder you have open.

Put all files into their corresponding folders you created

7) Download IPK Packager (Ipk Packager.jar - ipk-packager - Ipk Packager v1.6 - Project Hosting on Google Code), a product of Jason Robitaille
9) Open IPK Packager, browse to the "files" folder referenced in STEP 1
10) Package it up, install through WebOS Quick Install

(DO NOT USE the webOS SDK)

If it doesn't work: REMEMBER your directory structure. Make sure the above copied files are exactly where they should be (i.e. ROM.bin needs to be in files/usr/lib/palmos/rom0)

DONATIONS:

I welcome donations if this helped you in any way. If you wish to donate to me, please also consider donating to Jason Robitaille, because this is based off of the steps he wrote for packaging up Flash and making it run on webOS 2.1-toting Pre+ devices. This also uses a very handy tool created by him, so that's another reason to consider donating to him. Without his tool and great idea for packaging up Flash, you would be installing this by copying files to USB mode and running a BASH file. Please send him a thanks somewhere, even if you cannot donate to him.

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[sketch42]

Updated..

Also.. If you don't have webOS quick install ..

Get it here

http://forums.precentral.net/showthr...f=244&t=274461


I hope everything is clearer now..

Don't know how much more I can help =/

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[mpcollins]

@sketch42: Thanks for the rewrite ... however ... it is on step #7 that I really need the biggest breakdown (I will keep the quick install in mind, though, thanks). Please see the reply to ChasT.

Thanks ....

[mpcollins]

You are making this far too complicated. All you need is in #146. You do not need to know anything about Java.
When I said "point it at" what I meant was something like File/Open/Ok. The whole process is just a case of moving a few files around and doing very basic File/Menu operations, it's really that simple. No programming knowledge needed.

@ChasT: '... far too complicated'. Possibly, however I can't 'just do' what I have no inkling of. Let me see if I can explain. As I have said before in a previous post, I am a mainframer, not a web/server developer. So far, I know C#, barely. I have been referring to Java when it's probably JavaScript. And so on. You guys are brain surgeons (web developers) vs my heart surgery (COBOL mainframe). We know each others basic work but not their particulars.

One reason that I am not understanding this ipk packager stuff is that I don't understand what is supposed to be accomplished with it. I reviewed the page that I downloaded it from but it doesn't have much of explanation of it's use. When I try to 'open' it as you said, I am only able to 'open' the zipped file. Ok, so when I 'open' it, I find nothing that compiles/builds/whatever within it. Since I don't know what I am supposed to be accomplishing, I am not able to work towards that. Am I supposed to be unzipping/untarring, dragging my built folder and then re-zipping/tarring? Then what? Am I unzipping and then dragging that folder to my device? I understand that I don't drag my newly built ROM folder onto my device, or I wouldn't need the packager. When I investigate the ClassicROMContainer, I understand that one, and I am assuming that it will eventually reside on my device. I am not seeing that structure on my device, probably because it didn't install nor run properly.

Should I be asking these questions of others? I know that there are at least a couple of others who have asked questions on the forum that just don't understand what is being asked because they don't do that kind of surgery, if any surgery at all outside of alcohol and band-aids (non-programmers). Should we be asking our questions of others that are willing to teach us how to do your type of surgery?

Thanks ....
Monica

[sketch42]

@ChasT: '... far too complicated'. Possibly, however I can't 'just do' what I have no inkling of. Let me see if I can explain. As I have said before in a previous post, I am a mainframer, not a web/server developer. So far, I know C#, barely. I have been referring to Java when it's probably JavaScript. And so on. You guys are brain surgeons (web developers) vs my heart surgery (COBOL mainframe). We know each others basic work but not their particulars.

One reason that I am not understanding this ipk packager stuff is that I don't understand what is supposed to be accomplished with it. I reviewed the page that I downloaded it from but it doesn't have much of explanation of it's use. When I try to 'open' it as you said, I am only able to 'open' the zipped file. Ok, so when I 'open' it, I find nothing that compiles/builds/whatever within it. Since I don't know what I am supposed to be accomplishing, I am not able to work towards that. Am I supposed to be unzipping/untarring, dragging my built folder and then re-zipping/tarring? Then what? Am I unzipping and then dragging that folder to my device? I understand that I don't drag my newly built ROM folder onto my device, or I wouldn't need the packager. When I investigate the ClassicROMContainer, I understand that one, and I am assuming that it will eventually reside on my device. I am not seeing that structure on my device, probably because it didn't install nor run properly.

Should I be asking these questions of others? I know that there are at least a couple of others who have asked questions on the forum that just don't understand what is being asked because they don't do that kind of surgery, if any surgery at all outside of alcohol and band-aids (non-programmers). Should we be asking our questions of others that are willing to teach us how to do your type of surgery?

Thanks ....
Monica

All the ipk packager does, is take the folder , with all the subfolders, that you created, and zip them up into a format that the phone understands (which the end result is a file with the extension ipk)



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