Sunday, October 31, 2010

Maemo: Incompatible application package

Recently I copied some package to the N900 and when I tried to install it from the FileManager the installation failed and I got following message:
Unable to install 'qt4-homescreen-loader'. Incompatible application package.
The workaround is to install it manually from the XTerm:

sudo gainroot
dpkg -i DEBIAN_PACKAGE_FILENAME

In order to get the root access the certain application needs to be installed. More information can be found here.

I didn't dig into the problem so it might be that there was really something wrong with the package.

1 comment:

Aditya Bheemarao said...

thanks! faced the same issue, your suggestion worked.