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Simon Wells
Simon Wells

Simon Wells is an academic researching Argumentation Theory, Automated Reasoning, Intelligent Agents (IA) and MultiAgent Systems (MAS) all approached through a ludic lens.

He is particularly interested in how these tools can be usefully applied to critical literacy, security, gamification, and complex systems.

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Missing libhildonfm2 on Maemo

I tried to install pwsafe on my Nokia N810 running the Maemo Linux distribution. Unfortunately I got a library not found error which the package manager couldn't fix, even after an update to the Maemo distribution. The missing library was called libhildonfm2 and after a bit of googling I found a fix. Unfortunately it requires that software be installed outside of the package manager using apt-get at the command line. Because installing using apt-get requires root privileges the first thing to do is install the rootsh app via the package manager. This enables you to get a root shell via the following command:
sudo gainroot
Once you have a root shell you can issue an:
apt-get autoremove
to clean up unusable and unused packages, then:
apt-get install pwsafe
which causes pwsafe and all required dependencies, including the required version of libhildonfm2, to be installed.
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