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RELEASE NOTES


PROJECT RELEASE INFORMATION

Project:           Maemo Development Platform i386 Rootstrap
Version:           2.0
Baseline:          http://repository.maemo.org mistral free non-free
Date:              2006-07-07


GENERAL INFORMATION

This is a developer rootstrap of the Maemo Development Platform supporting i386
architecture. The packages included in this release support the following:
 - console based "hello world" application development 
 - simple GTK+ application development
 - Maemo UI applications       

The apt-get tool can also be used to obtain binary and source packages.
Please install this rootstrap to your Scratchbox target or include the 
following lines to the /etc/apt/sources.list in your Scratchbox target:

 deb     http://repository.maemo.org mistral free non-free
 deb-src http://repository.maemo.org mistral free non-free

For more information on Development Platform please refer to:

 http://www.maemo.org


INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

The following instructions cover manual rootstrap installation. You may choose
to use the Maemo installer instead, which installs all required components. The 
installer can be obtained here: 

 http://repository.maemo.org/stable/2.0/installer
 

1) install Scratchbox 0.9.8.8
     http://scratchbox.org/download/files/sbox-releases/0.9.8/

2) start Scratchbox
     scratchbox

3) create a new target
     sbox-config -ct SDK_PC

4) select your new target
     sbox-config -st SDK_PC

5) download the released rootstrap
     wget http://repository.maemo.org/stable/2.0/i386/Maemo_Dev_Platform_RS_v2.0_i386.tgz

6) install the rootstrap to your target
     sbox-config -er ./Maemo_Dev_Platform_RS_v2.0_i386.tgz

7) install the C library & libfakeroot
     sbox-config -cc
     sbox-config -cf

8) start an X-server in 16-bit mode, see tutorial for more information

9) desktop can now be started with command
     af-sb-init.sh start
   

KNOWN LIMITATIONS

Please see http://www.maemo.org/maemowiki/Known_Issues