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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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  • 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
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  • Oops, the zsh link is pointing to a site that is down. Any alternatives? – user89021 Oct 20 '09 at 01:23
  • 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 Oct 20 '09 at 06:12
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    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 Oct 20 '09 at 14:21
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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.

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    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 Oct 15 '09 at 09:24
  • Thank you for the link, which is great! – user89021 Oct 15 '09 at 12:46