Ipaq Feeds

Packages for familiar are organized into so-called feeds. You get those packages by using ipkg on your ipaq while having some network connection (like usb networking) set up. The main configuration file for ipkg is /etc/ipkg.conf. There you can setup which feeds to use and specify alternative installation destinations like mmc cards.

The preconfigured ipkg.conf contains only stable feeds. If you want to be up-to-date or something doesn't work with the packages from the stable feeds or you need some extra packages you have to edit the /etc/ipkg.conf manually. I collected the information about the most important feeds for myself.

http://familiar.handhelds.org/feeds/
Lots of feeds I don't know anything about. You can find kernels and other packages there. There's also an unstable/ directory in here, but I think it's not the "official" familiar unstable tree...
http://familiar.handhelds.org/familiar/feeds/unstable/packages/armv4l/
This is according to gpe.handhelds.org the official familiar unstable feed.
http://opie.handhelds.org/feed/ipaq/unstable/
The opie unstable feed. I always use this to get my opie apps because opie is developing really fast.
http://familiar.handhelds.org/familiar/releases/v0.7/x/armv4l/
The familiar 0.7 stable tree. If you want to install x on your mmc while having opie as base system, you can find such feeds by searching ipkg find.

The first thing I usually do after booting into my familiar and setting up usb networking is to put the unstable opie feed into my ipkg.conf and do and ipkg update, ipkg upgrade (some bugfix packages could be there...) and ipkg install task-opie. I usually don't use the familiar unstable tree because if system packages break it's not really fun.

More stuff!

Of course now you need some more. You'll find lots of opie packages by doing

ipkg list |grep opie

but you can also use the opie package tool, which you'll find by clicking on the settings tab, once you logged into your freshly installed opie.

If you don't find things here, search the killefiz archive. Most programs there work great with opie. And if that doesn't help, too, then a google search for something like ipaq feed myproggi might help. I'm a big chess fan, so I desperately wanted some knights package. Searching google for ipaq feed knights showed my some download location for the package and I learned to look at the Zaurus feed index the next time, too.

To install a downloaded .ipk, just scp it to your ipaq (into /tmp) and then do

ipkg install /tmp/complete-name.ipk

If it is an opie program, you may have to restart opie to find the icon in the appropriate tab.

Good things to install

If you want to be able to use kitchensync, then install the opie-security package.

Things that I install: