Development tools for Linux

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Answer 1

Hi tmx,
You can connect your PlayBook to Linux with both USB and Wifi.
The trick is to access it like a network device both ways.
USB method:
1. Plug in the PlayBook to your system and make sure that file sharing is set to 'Mac'.
2. In the network icon you should see a new connection appear. If not, click on the icon and look at connection information.
3. You should have a USB network device with an IP address of something like 169.128.123.123. Make a note of this number, and subtract 1 from the final 3 numbers for the next step.
4. Open your home folder (Nautilus) and in the location bar type in smb://169.128.123.122 - based on your address that you wrote down in the last step. You have to subtract 1 to connect to the PlayBook like I did in my example.
5. You should see the PlayBook appear as a 'Windows share', in there is the 'media' folder. Double-click and the PlayBook will be mounted as a network disk.
I know it's a bit fiddly, but once you've done it a few times it's really simple. I've been meaning to write a script to automate this... When I eventually get around to this I'll post it here
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