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2 Responses to “Doings maths on an Eee PC”

1. 1 philwil Jun 7th, 2008 at 4:03 pm

   very cool. I have been trying to install xournal on my eeepc runnng default xandros. how did you get it to work?

   thanks,
   philwil

2. 2 jonesieboy Jun 7th, 2008 at 6:24 pm

   Hi Philwil. I’m afraid I can’t give you exact details, as I don’t have the Eepc any more. I think I started by replacing the asus repositories with regular xandros ones:

   Adding more software from a Xandros or Debian repository is the next logical step in customising the operating system that ships with the Eee. For us, the Eee requires only the addition of Emacs and Subversion to be a great portable hacking tool. You can use any Debian Sarge repository or a Xandros 4.0 one, as shown below. There are a few caveats though. As the Xandros running on the Eee is heavily customised by ASUS, it’s very easy to end up with the Eee in an unbootable state if you allow apt to upgrade too much. Although it’s not a complete solution, apt pinning can be used to ensure that the ASUS repository always takes priority for a package.

   Add your repository to /etc/apt/source.list with your favourite text editor as root, either your local Debian Sarge repository or the Xandros one below:

   deb http://xnv4.xandros.com/4.0/pkg xandros4.0-xn main
   ↪contrib non-free

   Then, create the file /etc/apt/preferences, and add the lines:

   Package: *
   Pin: origin update.eepc.asus.com
   Pin-Priority: 999

   Then I think it was as easy as sudo apt-get install xournal - let me know if that works

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