Mpkg

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[[http://www.motorolafans.com/forums/download.php?id=500|Mpkg]] is a package manager for E680i/A780.
===== Installation instruction =====
[[http://www.motorolafans.com/index.php?option=com_openwiki&Itemid=54&id=linloader|LinLoader]] is necessary for the installation.
Extract the file mpkg.rar.
Copy mpkg.lin and mpkg.mpkg to your phone.
Tap on mpkg.lin to install mpkginstaller.
===== Information on the mpkg-fileformat: =====
collected by Stefan Schmidt
http://people.openezx.org/stefan/doc...fileformat.txt
Some details about the mpkg package format used for EZX
==== So How? ====
To make a long story short the mpkg package is just a renamed tar.gz with
special directory structure, filenames and icons.
In this small example we will package a program called foobar.
The Simple Explain:
To Use .Mpkg package is just to renamed the extention .mpkg to .gz (ie bass.mpkg to bass.gz) and open with mpkg installer restart u'r phone.
==== Directory structure ====
- The archive must contain directory with the name of the application.
- All files are placed under the directory.
==== The .desktop file: ====
- You need a file called foobar/foobar.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
BigIcon=foobar.png Big icon
Comment=Foo Bar Comment
Exec=foobar Executable
Icon=foobar-sm.png Small icon
Name=foobar Program name
Version=0.1 ???
OsVersion=1.1 ???
Shared=2 ???
Type=Application What other types are available?
==== Icons: ====
There are two diiferent types of icons. The big and the small one.
Resolution for big: 71 x 32, 8-bit/color
Resolution for small: 32 x 15, 8-bit/color
==== Create package: ====
$ tar czf foobar.mpkg foobar
==== Install package: ====
Just tap inside the file manager on the package and you will ba asked for installation.
The package get installed to .system/QTDownLoad/foobar
==== Discussion: ====
There are some notes on the web, you can use a .tar instead of a tar.gz for the package.
This does not work on my A780 at least. Somebody get this working on his phone?
==== Credits: ====
Most of the information is can be found in the http://www.motorolafans.com/ forum.
In this document i collect and put together all the pieces of
information.
Stefan Schmidt <stefan@datenfreihafen.org>, 2006-01-20