Bjoern Olausson

Two days ago I got a Nokia N950 Dev Kit. I could have held it six days earlier in my hands,
if the mailman would have dropped a note in my mailbox that the package was delivered to a neighbor...
Anyway, now it's here and it's begging to be used :-)

After sorting out some problems with password less SSH authentication (changing user:!: to user:*: in /etc/passwd),
I also got Harmattan running in a scratchbox under Gentoo Linux.

Here are the short steps:

• Add the following to "/etc/portage/package.keywords/scratchbox":

  dev-embedded/scratchbox
  dev-embedded/scratchbox-devkit-debian
  dev-embedded/scratchbox-devkit-cputransp
  dev-embedded/scratchbox-devkit-perl
  dev-embedded/scratchbox-devkit-doctools
  dev-embedded/scratchbox-toolchain-cs2009q3-eglibc2_10
  dev-embedded/scratchbox-devkit-qemu
  dev-embedded/scratchbox-devkit-svn
  dev-embedded/scratchbox-devkit-git
  dev-embedded/scratchbox-devkit-apt-https
  dev-embedded/scratchbox-devkit-debian-squeeze
  dev-embedded/scratchbox-devkit-hashutils-squeeze-sdk

• Get the ebuild for "dev-embedded/scratchbox-devkit-hashutils-squeeze-sdk" from Gentoo's Bugzilla (Bug 375127),
  append the version (You can find the latest one here) and but it somewhere into your overlay.

  mkdir -p ${PATH_TO_YOUR_OVERLAY}/dev-embedded/scratchbox-devkit-hashutils-squeeze-sdk
  cd ${PATH_TO_YOUR_OVERLAY}/dev-embedded/scratchbox-devkit-hashutils-squeeze-sdk/
  wget -O scratchbox-devkit-hashutils-squeeze-sdk-1.0.12.ebuild http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=280013
  ebuild scratchbox-devkit-hashutils-squeeze-sdk-1.0.12.ebuild digest

• Now emerge all the above packages.

  cat /etc/portage/package.keywords/scratchbox | xargs emerge -v

• After the successfull installation, start the scratchbox:

  /etc/init.d/scratchbox start

• As root, add your user to the scratchbox:
  

  /scratchbox/sbin/sbox_adduser <user name> yes

• Download the Harmattan platform SDK installation script from Nokia, make it executable and run it:  

  wget http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/unstable/beta/harmattan-sdk-setup.py
  chmod +x harmattan-sdk-setup.py
  ./harmattan-sdk-setup.py

• Login to scratchbox from your user account:    

  /opt/scratchbox/login

• Run the scratchbox menu config tool and select the active target platform (HARMATTAN_X86):  

  [sbox: ~] sb-menu

• Fire up another shell and run the following to get the UI up and running:  

  Xephyr :2 -host-cursor -screen 854x480x16 -dpi 96 -ac +extension Composite &

• From within your scratchbox shell start the "MeeGo Touch Framework":  

  [sbox-HARMATTAN_X86: ~] > meego-sb-session start

• To stop it, just run:  

  meego-sb-session stop

• You might want to add the Nokia Develope repository:    

  echo "deb http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/ harmattan/sdk free non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/harmattan-dev.list

That's all!