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the page you get to once a developer key is made directs you to copy and paste a long wget command to the treminal. it is not at all obvious how to do that. I managed to but only with a great deal of hackery. i suppose you could always write down the string, but that is ugly and error-prone.
the page you get to once a developer key is made directs you to copy and paste a long wget command to the treminal. it is not at all obvious how to do that. I managed to but only with a great deal of hackery. i suppose you could always write down the string, but that is ugly and error-prone.

The instruction for getting a developer key by starting Browse and clicking the Library link 'other' and then 'about your xo' didn't make sense on my G1G1. There is no 'other' link. Perhaps this is out of date or just unclear. The file:///home/.devkey.html approach does work for me.

Revision as of 02:31, 30 May 2008

the page you get to once a developer key is made directs you to copy and paste a long wget command to the treminal. it is not at all obvious how to do that. I managed to but only with a great deal of hackery. i suppose you could always write down the string, but that is ugly and error-prone.

The instruction for getting a developer key by starting Browse and clicking the Library link 'other' and then 'about your xo' didn't make sense on my G1G1. There is no 'other' link. Perhaps this is out of date or just unclear. The file:///home/.devkey.html approach does work for me.