[Linux-disciples] Finding a device - my PDA

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 12:26:05PM -0500, Jason A. Smith wrote:
> This question: I used synaptic package manager to install the necessary
> packages. When I do this, this makes it unnecessary to do the unpacking
> and compiling... correct? I guess I am unsure where in the How To's re
> setting up my pilot I should jump in.

Without contributing anything about Palm Pilots and Linux, I
will just observe that you should almost never need to
compile anything; that's the very point of a distribution.
To check whether a particular package exists in Debian, do

apt-cache search [keywords]

where 'keywords' are words describing the package that you
care about. When you find a package that looks promising --
e.g., see the results of an apt-cache search for 'palm
pilot' below -- you do 'apt-cache show [package name]',
where 'package name' comes from the apt-cache search that
you just did. E.g., here are the results of 'apt-cache show
autopilot':

	Package: autopilot
	Priority: extra
	Section: otherosfs
	Installed-Size: 72
	Maintainer: Tommi Virtanen <tv at debian.org>
	Architecture: i386
	Version: 1.21-1
	Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4)
	Filename: pool/main/a/autopilot/autopilot_1.21-1_i386.deb
	Size: 6652
	MD5sum: 4357697e4515a5649a239729868d29d6
	Description: Monitor the DTR line of /dev/palm and run a command to start sync
	 AutoPilot monitors the DTR line of /dev/palm, waiting for it to go
	 from LOW to HIGH, which is used to activate a command automatically
	 to make syncing easier. It can be used to boot up your favourite Palm
	 syncer.

If that looks like what you want, install it using synaptic
(never used it, but it sounds cool) or

sudo apt-get install [package name]

-- e.g., 'sudo apt-get install autopilot'.

autopilot - Monitor the DTR line of /dev/palm and run a command to start sync
flexmem - File Transfer to Flex.Memory on Siemens GSM Mobiles
libobexftp1 - Object Exchange File Transfer Library
libopenobex-dev - OBEX protocol library - development files
libopenobex1 - OBEX protocol library
libpisock4 - Libraries for communicating with a Pilot PDA.
sitescooper - retrieves stories from websites for your Palm Pilot
gnome-pilot - A GNOME applet for management of your Palm PDA
gnome-pilot-conduits - Conduits for gnome-pilot
gpsbabel - GPS file conversion plus transfer to/from GPS units
imgvtopgm - PalmPilot/III Image Conversion utility
jpilot - graphical app. to modify the contents of your Palm Pilot's DBs
jpilot-mail - Mail plugin for jpilot (Palm Pilot desktop)
jpilot-plugins - plugins for jpilot (Palm Pilot desktop)
jpilot-syncmal - MAL (AvantGo) plugin for jpilot (Palm Pilot desktop)
korganizer - KDE personal organizer
kpilot - KDE Palm Pilot hot-sync tool
libobexftp-dev - object exchange file transfer library
libopenobex-1.0-0 - OBEX protocol library
libopenobex-1.0-0-dev - OBEX protocol library - development files
libpalm-perl - Perl 5 modules for manipulating pdb and prc database files
libpda-pilot-perl - Perl module to communicate with a PalmOS PDA
libpisock++0 - C++ library for communicating with a PalmOS PDA
libpisock-dev - Development files for communicating with a PalmOS PDA
libpisock8 - Library for communicating with a PalmOS PDA
libpisync0 - Synchronization library for PalmOS devices
malsync - Allows a PalmOS PDA to synchronize to a MAL server
obexftp - file transfer utility for devices that use the OBEX protocol
openobex-apps - Applications for OpenOBEX
osflash - Reflash the OS of a Palm Computing Device
pilot-link - Tools to communicate with a PalmOS PDA
pilot-manager - PalmPilot PIM, UI, and Conduit Manager
pilot-template - Code generator for PalmPilot programs
prc-tools - GCC, GDB, binutils, etc. for PDAs using the PalmOS
prc-tools-arm - Development toolchain for PDAs using the PalmOS (ARM chipset)
prc-tools-doc - Development toolchain for PDAs using the PalmOS (documentation)
prc-tools-m68k - Development Toolchain for PDAs using the PalmOS (Motorola chipset)
prc-tools-utils - Development toolchain for PDAs using the PalmOS (utilities)
python-pisock - Python module to communicate with PalmOS PDA
sitescooper-sites - retrieves stories from websites for your Palm Pilot
syncbbdb - BBDB to PalmOS Pilot Manger conduit
woody - Hierarchic text editor

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Stephen R. Laniel
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