How-to's Hints and Tips

welcome to the how to’s!

Hi

let’s use this blog to record problems , questions , and answers on technical issues on general Eldy version.

E.g.: how to install with Skype, how to change account username, how to configure on ubuntu etc.

don’ t post here version specific problems (e.g. in the Dutch version we have a problem on the symbol with accent etc) that need to be discussed and solved in the language group.

In the next few days we will start putting the standards how-to  and some question you already arose!

thank you for your support!
Enrico

how to configure Norton to have Eldy work!

Hi

it might be you experience a strange situation, in which email and chat works, while other component (e.g. “surf the web”, “eldytv” etc) don’t work.

that is very probably because you have an antivirus Norton active.

Go in the Norton menu, select firewall  and set the following rules in the application rules:

in all of these 4 cases click the “allow” option on the right.

when this is done, restart Eldy and .. .enjoy!

how to set up Eldy with Yahoo!

to configure ELDY with Yahoo do as follow:

An important, first thing: YAHOO! email does not allow pop3  access in standard service.
To access email via pop3 (as ELDY or any other email client) you need YAHOO! email plus service (http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/mailplus/overview/overview-03.html)

pop server = plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com
pop port = 995

smtp server = plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com
smtp port =587

auth. SSL =yes
auth. TLS= yes
auth SMTP = yes

this is the link from Yahoo!

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/mailplus/pop/pop-06.html

Ubuntu 9 – applet in Eldy browser

some users experienced problem accessing a website with applets using Eldy browser.

that happens for some missing symbolic links in some configurations:
A) create a symbolic link for applet engine in  xulrunner
1-   cd /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.16/plugins
2-   ln -fs /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

B) if problem persistes, and sun-java6-plugin is installed:
1- apt-get remove sun-java6-plugin
2- cd /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.16/plugins
3- ln -fs /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
4-   cd /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.16/plugins
5-   ln -fs /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Good luck!

how to configure gmail account with Eldy

to set up an existing gmail account to work on eldy:

1) enable pop3 at gmail account
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=13273

2) configure right settings of your Eldy account, while registering or from help-settings:

pop server = pop.gmail.com
pop port = 995

smtp server = smtp.gmail.com
smtp port = 587

auth. SSL =yes
auth. TLS= yes
auth SMTP = yes

3) restart Eldy, go to new messages, you should see them coming (if any)

install Eldy on linux

three steps:

1) install JAVA JRE 6

if Debian/Ubuntu, or other Debian derivated distro:

- install java6 jre ( ” apt-get install sun-java6-jre ” )
(careful: java is nonfree, you might need to change your source.list to look for nonfree)

are you sure you have java?

to test:
# java -v
and see if you get java version or error.

2) install ELDY downloading tar gz (my personal suggestion)

get latest eldy from http://download.eldy.com
# cd /usr/local
# tar xzvfp eldy*.tgz

2bis) install ELDY as Debian package: (might not be the lates)

- add deb.vegans.it to your source list editing “/etc/apt/sources.list” and adding at the bottom: the following line:
deb http://deb.vegans.it binary/
#  apt-get update

# apt-get install eldy

3) Launch Eldy and enjoy
- enjoy eldy running:
” java -jar /usr/local/eldy/eldy.jar”

of course if you called directory in a different way, or placed into other , go where eldy.jar is and launch:
# java -jar eldy.jar

how to install java on Debian 5

The original Sun Java 2 is available in the ‘non-free’ section of the Debian repositories. To enable this section first add the non-free repository to the apt sources file – the /etc/apt/sources.list should look like, – important parts are in bold:


deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free


Now, update apt:

sudo apt-get update


Then install the Java debian packages.

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre