Documentation/Maemo Flasher-3.5 Tutorial/Installation

= Installation =

The Maemo Flasher-3.5 tool must be installed from the installation package provided for Debian based Linuxes, Windows and Mac OS X. For Linux distributions other than Debian-based ones, a compressed tar file is provided.

Maemo Flasher-3.5 tool supports following 32-bit host PC operating systems:


 * Debian based Linuxes (with Debian installation package).
 * Other Linuxes (with tar installation package).
 * Windows XP with SP3, Vista with SP2 and Windows 7 (with Windows installation package).
 * Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and 10.6 Snow Leopard (with Mac OS X installation package).

Linux and Windows versions of Maemo Flasher-3.5 tool support x86/32-bit host PC architectures.

Mac OS X versions of Maemo Flasher-3.5 tool support x86/32-bit and PPC/32-bit architectures.

Workaround for 64-bit operating systems that support either VMware, VirtualBox or QEMU virtualisation technologies is to install Maemo SDK Virtual Image from the Maemo Development Environment Downloads page (see document Maemo SDK Virtual Image Tutorial  for more information) and install and run Maemo Flasher-3.5 from the image. If host PC hardware, operating system and chosen virtualisation technology have good enough support for USB port, flashing Maemo device from Maemo SDK Virtual Image should work.

Maemo Flasher-3.5 tools for different operating systems can be downloaded from the Maemo Development Environment Downloads page and installed using standard operating system specific installation methods.