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rbutil - The Rockbox Utility needs testing
robin0800:
still a few errors or faults with this utility on windows xp
in no particular order;
1) with no ipod connected choosing install utility from file menu tells me it completed sucessfully clearly it lied.
2)some themes would not install thaats all thy said! did they need patches or somthing?
3)it would be nice to have the utility to be fine for new installs but very wary if rockbox is already there as it will wipe out any patches that may be installed could it determine if patches are present?
Llorean:
In regard to #3, I'm not sure why the official installer should even be run on devices running patched builds. If you run it over an official installation there should be no problem. If you have a patched build, telling it to install Rockbox is pointless unless you clearly want to wipe out the patched build, right?
I'm not sure why adding an extra "Are you sure you wish to overwrite this" is beneficial since the only time the answer would be "No" is if you aren't using an official build of Rockbox (the only time you really should want to keep an outdated build) and this is the official installer, right?
Domonoky:
To #1: the portable installation is somehow broken, and i dont know why, i leave this to Cassandra :-)
#2: All Themes you can see in rbutil are from rockbox-themes.org, rockbox-themes filter the Themes which need a patch out, so you should only see Themes whitch work on the official build.
If the Installation of a theme fails, rbutil says "Installation failed" and offers a Button for more Info about this error. So there should be the Info why the install failed.
to #3:
Its impossible to detect if you have a patched build, rbutil will just install the newest official build.
hope i could help.
lights0ut:
I've tried out the win32 version of rbutil through wine, it looks nice but I haven't done any real testing with it because I'm stubbornly trying to get it to work in Linux.
I've compiled / installed the latest Wxwidgets, and when I go to build rbutil it compiles fine.
When I run ./rbutil (as user and as root just to be sure) I get this error:
./rbutil: error while loading shared libraries: libwx_gtk2_aui-2.8.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I had a look for said library, and it's located in /usr/local/lib which is in my path. Any suggestions as to what's going wrong?
Domonoky:
Hey,
i dont know too much about Linux, but it sounds like your wx libs are not correct installed.
Check if the lib really has this name, and if it is a Symlink, that it points to the right place.
you can also try to set the variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the dir with the lib.
Another option would be to build wx with the configure switch --disable-shared then it should build a static wx, and dont need the libs.
There is also a .dep package on the wxwidgets site if you have Ubuntu or Debian.. this works :-)
@ tdtook: i dont know if the Makefile is uptodate for use with cygwin. On Windows i compile with Code::Blocks. However, on linux the makefile works.
hope i could help.
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