how to get a console shell on my symbian phone?

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how to get a console shell on my symbian phone?

How do I get a bash or a similar shell for my new Symbian s60 rev 5 phone (Nokia 5800) ?

I already installed putty for s60, but it does not have telnet and it seems that there is no local ssh server running.

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Here is an article which explains text console in Carbide. You just should add -dtextshell parameter. It will work for emulator, but I'm not sure if it works on the device.

Lukasz Lysik 2009-10-14 23:06:36

This will only work on the emulator. It tells the system to use a text-only UI, rather than the default full GUI. Once booted, the text-only UI will present the user with an eshell prompt.As laalto commented, eshell is also available from a GUI environment, though it typically isn't installed on the device.

Gareth Stockwell 2009-10-15 09:24:11

Thank you for the link, which is great!

2009-10-15 12:46:30

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There's eshell but it is usually not included in phone SW that is put on the device. You can use it on emulator though.
There's a port of zsh that you can also run on the device. It's way more powerful than eshell.

laalto 2009-10-15 08:39:48

Oops, the zsh link is pointing to a site that is down. Any alternatives?

2009-10-20 01:23:17

symbian.com is being migrated over to symbian.org and the zsh related stuff on symbian.org is now behind a Symbian Foundation membership login :( I'll send the SF people some feedback that content that used to be freely available is no longer so.

laalto 2009-10-20 06:12:45

Got a response from SF technical comms team and they've put up the downloads on an updated page. I updated my answer to point to the new location.

laalto 2009-10-20 14:21:04

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