Warren- Saturday, July 20, 2013, 11:30:14 AM, you wrote:
> On 07/20/2013 12:59 PM, Richmond wrote: >> On 07/20/2013 08:23 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: >>> Richmond- >>> >>> Saturday, July 20, 2013, 10:02:38 AM, you wrote: >>> >>>> Setting the thing up was, inevitably, slightly difficult as, >>>> inevitably, the setup instructions were slightly wrong (but that is >>>> normal for Linux). >>> As I am about to install this thing next week, would you care to share >>> any insights about that process? >>> >> >> Well . . . >> >> The first thing is to get VirtualBox sorted out on your system. >> >> The second thing is that Genymotion looks for the SDK which is hard to >> locate: >> >> ~/android-sdks/sdk (where '~' is your Home folder), >> >> don't let yourself be distracted by 'android-sdk-linux' >> >> after that it goes "all funny" about something that is supposed to be in >> the /etc/init.d folder, but isn't; so you have to do some fiddling around, >> and quite how the thing worked because of my fiddling around I cannot >> really say. >> >> After that things seem comparatively straightforward, and I suspect the >> best way to >> get an Android standalone onto one of the devices is by uploading it to >> some website >> and then downloading it from inside the emulated device. >> >> Unfortunately right now I've got a lot of "extraneous stuff" on my >> plate, but I hope, come >> Sunday night I will be able to upload some reasonably pretty pictures to >> the Forum. >> >> Richmond. >> > Apparently installation woes are a YMMV kind of thing. I just installed > without any headscratching at all. Just clicked through the dialogs as > they came up and I was all set and running. That can easily depend on linux distros, especially where init.d comes into play. -- -Mark Wieder [email protected] _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
