Q&A Porting to Fremantle

This page is intended to consolidate the common errors that occur while trying to port Diablo applications to Fremantle. Feel free to improve this page and/or add additional information.

maemo-select-menu-location: command not found
Typical error message scratchbox/tools/bin/sh: line 1: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: No such file or directory Setting up leafpad (0.8.16le-0maemo2) ... gtk-update-icon-cache: Cache file created successfully. /var/lib/dpkg/info/leafpad.postinst: line 7: maemo-select-menu-location: command not found dpkg: error processing leafpad (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127

Reason

maemo-select-menu-location is obsolete. In Fremantle, there is no submenu like, "Utility", "Extra", "Settings" etc. All installed 3rd party software will be visible under "Applications" by default.

Action Remove the instance from the post installation script. It is not needed.

Missing dependency: maemo-installer-utils
Reason

The package hildon-application-manager no longer "provides" maemo-installer-utils. The commands maemo-confirm-text, maemo-application-running, maemo-list-user-packages are still available.

Action

Replace the dependency with hildon-application-manager.

Missing dependency: libhildonhelp0
Reason

libhildonhelp is dropped.

Action

Remove the dependency and calls to the help APIs.

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