I said I'd never blog

I recently had to install the Android SDK on a couple of my machines, and will share my experience doing that after this post. I am currently trying to compare it with Meego, and I think these few notes can be useful.

I encountered a couple issues:

• the "meego-sdk" package was uninstallable because of a dependency issue;
• the SDK installs into /opt and the recommended partitioning has / too small (about 200MB are required)

The first issue was solved by forward-porting libmpfr1ldbl from Debian Lenny; if you adapt for your setup and actual versions:

# echo deb-src http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ lenny main >> /etc/apt/sources.list
# apt-get update
[...]
# apt-get source -b libmpfr1ldbl
[...]
# dpkg -i libmpfr1ldbl_2.3.1.dfsg.1-2_amd64.deb
[...]
# apt-get install meego-sdk
[...]

I'll see if I can easily package it within hackable:1, it could be interesting to help install the SDK thanks to this repository; it's usually the other way around...

The second issue was easily solved with a bind mount:

# echo /usr/opt /opt bind defaults,bind 0 0 >> /etc/fstab
# mkdir -p /opt /usr/opt
# mount /opt

This has to be done before the previous step if you needed it. Do not forget to move the contents of /opt to /usr/opt if necessary.

I have also posted this information on http://wiki.meego.com/Talk:Image_Creation_For_Beginners .

Interestingly enough it supports OpenID. It was trivial enough to login using my existing ID on http://openid.bearstech.com/ . Neat :)