Schedule: Hildon App. Manager: package management for Internet Tablets
| Speakers | |
|---|---|
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Marius Vollmer |
| Schedule | |
| Day | Sunday |
| Room | Ferrer |
| Start time | 11:00 |
| End time | 11:15 |
| Duration | 00:15 |
| Info | |
| Event type | Lightning-Talk |
| Track | Lightning Talks |
| Language | English |
| Media | |
| Slides (PDF) | |
| Video (Ogg/Theora) | |
Debian-style package management for maemo consumers
- For applications, for the operating system. - For hackers, for grandmas (and hacking grandmas). - Challenge: easy and robust configuration management on the device. - Challenge: traditional monolithic development and release process for mobile devices: OS as binary blob, no dependencies between applications.
Our approaches to the challenges will be explained briefly.
The Hildon Application Manager is pre-installed on all Internet Tablets and handles the installation and removal of additional software. In the future, it will also keep the operating system itself up-to-date.
The Application Manager is a frontend to apt and dpkg, like Synaptic or gnome-app-install, only different.