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jlacroix

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Registered: 2009-08-16

Posts: 576

[REQUEST] EasyTether [SOLVED]

Hello everyone, I'm hoping that maybe someone can make a package for EasyTether? The .Deb package is linked below (I'm on 64-bit):

https://sites.google.com/site/easytethe … ects=0&d=1

This would be greatly appreciated. My wife wants to use this to tether her phone but doesn't want to switch to *buntu in order to do it.

Last edited by jlacroix (2011-06-25 03:56:44)

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,607

Re: [REQUEST] EasyTether [SOLVED]

It pretty much consists of an udev file and a single binary. You can manually unpack the .deb, copy the udev file to /etc/udev/rules.d and the binary to /usr/local/bin. It's what I did. Then restart udev (I think it's "udevadm control --reload-rules") and you're set.

leepesjee

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Registered: 2008-11-06

Posts: 57

Re: [REQUEST] EasyTether [SOLVED]

To keep your system clean and maintainable, you might want to build a package from it. Try the following as a PKGBUILD

# Maintainer: ...
pkgname=easytether
pkgver=0.7.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Easytether drivers"
arch=('x86_64')
url="http://www.mobile-stream.com/easytether/android.html"
license=('custom')
makedepends=('deb2targz')
source=(http://www.mobile-stream.com/beta/${pkgname}_${pkgver}-3_amd64.deb)
md5sums=('62e4789e972697169951dc4dc26ad6a1')

build() {
  deb2targz ./${pkgname}_${pkgver}-3_amd64.deb
  tar -xvf ./${pkgname}_${pkgver}-3_amd64.tar.gz

  install -dv -m755 $pkgdir/usr/bin
  mv -v $srcdir/usr/bin/$pkgname $pkgdir/usr/bin

  install -dv -m755 $pkgdir/usr/share/doc
  mv -v $srcdir/usr/share/doc/$pkgname $pkgdir/usr/share/doc

  install -dv -m755 $pkgdir/etc/udev/rules.d
  mv -v $srcdir/lib/udev/rules.d/*.rules $pkgdir/etc/udev/rules.d

}

jlacroix

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Registered: 2009-08-16

Posts: 576

Re: [REQUEST] EasyTether [SOLVED]

To keep your system clean and maintainable, you might want to build a package from it. Try the following as a PKGBUILD

# Maintainer: ...
pkgname=easytether
pkgver=0.7.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Easytether drivers"
arch=('x86_64')
url="http://www.mobile-stream.com/easytether/android.html"
license=('custom')
makedepends=('deb2targz')
source=(http://www.mobile-stream.com/beta/${pkgname}_${pkgver}-3_amd64.deb)
md5sums=('62e4789e972697169951dc4dc26ad6a1')

build() {
  deb2targz ./${pkgname}_${pkgver}-3_amd64.deb
  tar -xvf ./${pkgname}_${pkgver}-3_amd64.tar.gz

  install -dv -m755 $pkgdir/usr/bin
  mv -v $srcdir/usr/bin/$pkgname $pkgdir/usr/bin

  install -dv -m755 $pkgdir/usr/share/doc
  mv -v $srcdir/usr/share/doc/$pkgname $pkgdir/usr/share/doc

  install -dv -m755 $pkgdir/etc/udev/rules.d
  mv -v $srcdir/lib/udev/rules.d/*.rules $pkgdir/etc/udev/rules.d

}

Thank you, I think that might have worked. I will have my wife try it out tomorrow and report back.

jlacroix

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Registered: 2009-08-16

Posts: 576

Re: [REQUEST] EasyTether [SOLVED]

I am having a small problem, but it's not related to the package, so I marked this as solved. In fact, the package works perfect but for some reason, when I run the required command (dhclient easytether0) it tells me that dhclient isn't installed, even though it is. (If you don't use network manager, you have to run the dhclient command, and she uses wicd instead of network manager). Any idea what may cause this?

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,607

Re: [REQUEST] EasyTether [SOLVED]

Are you sure you really have dhclient installed and not just dhcpcd? dhcpcd is the default in Arch.

jlacroix

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Registered: 2009-08-16

Posts: 576

Re: [REQUEST] EasyTether [SOLVED]

Are you sure you really have dhclient installed and not just dhcpcd? dhcpcd is the default in Arch.

I'm sure of it.

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,607

Re: [REQUEST] EasyTether [SOLVED]

Hmm, have you tried dhcpcd then? You don't need to use dhclient, any client will do. I myself use busybox udhcpc. It's by far the fastest in obtaining a lease and setting things up.