<![CDATA[Moving to UBports now]]>Due to a hardware fault (the touch screen of my BQ E4.5 does not respond to touch in 90% of the surface) I will now definitely move from OWA15 to UBports. I was lucky to have had already configured some other E4.5 to r3 (December 2017) and so I have just moved my contacts to this and can continue to have a mobile for calls, Dekko and as hotspot for my daily usage. When the faulty E4.5 returns from bq.com (they offered to replace the screen), I will update this to the most recent version of UBports.

I'm missing a lot of apps at the moment, which I have had on the OWA15 device, mostly:
SensorStatus
Knowndict
Is there any way to get them back? A search in the OpenStore does not work either.

Thanks, Matthias

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/topic/1644/moving-to-ubports-nowRSS for NodeThu, 14 May 2026 01:27:58 GMTWed, 05 Sep 2018 09:40:34 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Moving to UBports now on Thu, 20 Sep 2018 10:27:18 GMT]]>I've downloaded the file ubports-installer-0.1.21-beta.freebsd and can have a look into it with

$ xz -dc ubports-installer-0.1.21-beta.freebsd | tar tf -
+COMPACT_MANIFEST
+MANIFEST
/opt/ubports-installer/LICENSE.electron.txt
/opt/ubports-installer/LICENSES.chromium.html
/opt/ubports-installer/blink_image_resources_200_percent.pak
/opt/ubports-installer/content_resources_200_percent.pak
...

How is this to be installed and used on FreeBSD?

I tried to rename the archive to the normal file name for FreeBSD packages, integrated it in my repository and tried to install it, which gives:

# mv ubports-installer-0.1.21-beta.freebsd /usr/local/PKGDIR.20170304/ubports-installer-0.1.21-beta.txz
# pkg repo /usr/local/PKGDIR.20170304
pkg -R /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/ install ubports-installer
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
meta.txz                                 : 100%  264 B     0.3kB/s    00:01    
packagesite.txz                          : 100%  418 KiB 428.5kB/s    00:01    
Processing entries:  88%
pkg: wrong architecture: linux:4:x86:64 instead of FreeBSD:12:amd64
pkg: repository FreeBSD contains packages with wrong ABI: linux:4:x86:64
Processing entries: 100%
Unable to update repository FreeBSD
Error updating repositories!

Can the dev who created this archive please contact me? Thanks.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/12603https://forums.ubports.com/post/12603Thu, 20 Sep 2018 10:27:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Moving to UBports now on Wed, 19 Sep 2018 16:16:25 GMT]]>@guru The installer should work with ubuntu 15 I think, if you have any issues try an older version of the installer like 0.1.12

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/12584https://forums.ubports.com/post/12584Wed, 19 Sep 2018 16:16:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Moving to UBports now on Wed, 19 Sep 2018 15:59:32 GMT]]>The broken E4.5 returned from bq.com today, repaired (they swapped the screen for 120 EUR). It runs some version of UT.

How can I update this to the most recent version of UBports? I have no M$ laptop, only FreeBSD and some older Ubuntu 15.x

Thanks

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/12580https://forums.ubports.com/post/12580Wed, 19 Sep 2018 15:59:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Moving to UBports now on Thu, 06 Sep 2018 10:36:45 GMT]]>@guru said in Moving to UBports now:

A big thanks to Terence!

You're very welcome! 🙂

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/12205https://forums.ubports.com/post/12205Thu, 06 Sep 2018 10:36:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Moving to UBports now on Thu, 06 Sep 2018 07:30:24 GMT]]>Terence Sambo from the old ubuntu-phone mailing list, compiled a click for me and I installed it with

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~/dict$ pkcon --allow-untrusted install-local knowndict.benyfu_0.1.3-15.04_armhf.click
Installing files              [=========================]         
Finished                      [=========================]         
Installing files              [=========================]         
Starting                      [=========================]         
Finished                      [=========================]         
Installed   	knowndict.benyfu-0.1.3.armhf (installed:click,removable=1,app_name=KnownDict)	summary goes here
phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~/dict$ sudo click register --user=phablet 'knowndict.benyfu' 0.1.3
[sudo] password for phablet: 
phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~/dict$

The rest was just importing my dictionary via the file manager app.

A big thanks to Terence!

Matthias

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/12197https://forums.ubports.com/post/12197Thu, 06 Sep 2018 07:30:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Moving to UBports now on Thu, 06 Sep 2018 05:36:04 GMT]]>The click tar contains two dictionaries:

share/qml/knowndict/pre_installed
share/qml/knowndict/pre_installed/langdao_ce
share/qml/knowndict/pre_installed/langdao_ce/langdao-ce-gb.ifo
share/qml/knowndict/pre_installed/langdao_ce/langdao-ce-gb.dict
share/qml/knowndict/pre_installed/langdao_ce/langdao-ce-gb.idx
share/qml/knowndict/pre_installed/langdao_ec
share/qml/knowndict/pre_installed/langdao_ec/langdao-ec-gb.idx
share/qml/knowndict/pre_installed/langdao_ec/langdao-ec-gb.dict
share/qml/knowndict/pre_installed/langdao_ec/langdao-ec-gb.ifo

Check, where they endup in the mobile. IIRC, it's enough to make a new dir and place the three files into it.
Will later check, if I find a slot in time....

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/12194https://forums.ubports.com/post/12194Thu, 06 Sep 2018 05:36:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Moving to UBports now on Fri, 21 Sep 2018 05:27:10 GMT]]>@guru I have good memories of knowndict as well! Seems its enough to

bzr branch lp:knowndict
cd knowndict 
clickable --sdk 16.04

I get through the wizard. But I cant remember anymore how to put a dictionary in there 😛

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/12191https://forums.ubports.com/post/12191Fri, 21 Sep 2018 05:27:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Moving to UBports now on Wed, 05 Sep 2018 10:58:07 GMT]]>KnownDict was running as an app on my OWA15 device and have had support for the so called StarDict files, i.e. for dictionary files in that format. I own a Spanish dictionary of around 100.000 words. This is not to translate from, for example, Spanish to English, but to get the correct spelling and explanations of a given word, and examples of the usage. I really miss that. I will write an email to the old list, maybe someone has a backup of the click package...

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/12166https://forums.ubports.com/post/12166Wed, 05 Sep 2018 10:58:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Moving to UBports now on Wed, 05 Sep 2018 10:36:03 GMT]]>@guru in the meanwhile you can use https://open-store.io/app/com.ubuntu.developer.majster-pl.translator-app for Chinese

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/12165https://forums.ubports.com/post/12165Wed, 05 Sep 2018 10:36:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Moving to UBports now on Wed, 05 Sep 2018 10:13:53 GMT]]>I updated the OpenStore app in the E4.5 and now the search works better. I could install sensorstatus from there.

KnownDict is here https://launchpad.net/knowndict but I have to look for a click pkg...

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/12164https://forums.ubports.com/post/12164Wed, 05 Sep 2018 10:13:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Moving to UBports now on Wed, 05 Sep 2018 09:50:11 GMT]]>@guru sensorssatus is in the OpenStore https://open-store.io/app/sensorsstatus.chrisclime but I don't know about the other one, this is the first time I hear it.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/12163https://forums.ubports.com/post/12163Wed, 05 Sep 2018 09:50:11 GMT