FBReader for Sharp Zaurus

Sharp Zaurus is the first platform FBReader was developed for. :) We provide several set packages for different firmwares.

FBReader for Sharp Zaurus is 0.8.17 and will never be updated...

For devices with Qtopia-based firmware (original Sharp, Cacko)

Necessary packages:

FBReader uses expat library for XML reading. If expat is not installed on your Zaurus, you need to download and install expat binary package.
FBReader uses libbz2 library for accessing bzip2 archives. Please download and install libbz2 binary package.
For devices with 240x320 screen resolution:

For devices with 640x480 screen resolution:

On some devices, libz is not installed correctly. If fbreader does not work on your device, please try to install the libz binary package.

Optional packages:

If your preferred character encoding is not presented in FBReader list, please install the package containing the full set of gconv modules for Sharp Zaurus Qtopia. Warning: this package is large -- about 8Mb after unpacking.
Free zaurus fonts, converted from GPL'd truetype fonts.

For devices with pdaXrom firmware

FBReader works only on pdaXrom 1.1.0 RC11 or newer. FBReader for pdaXrom is distributed as a single package containing both Gtk+ and Qt interface modules. By default the program runs with Gtk+ interface. To force Qt interface, start FBReader from command line as ‘FBReader -zlui qt’.

FBReader 0.8.17 binary package.

For devices with OpenZaurus firmware

This version of FBReader is tested on OpenZaurus 3.5.4 with Opie and GPE images.
Please install packages libstdc++6, libexpat0 and bzip2 from standard OpenZaurus feed.
For Opie environment:
- FBReader 0.8.17 binary package for devices with resolution 240x320.
- FBReader 0.8.17 binary package for devices with resolution 640x480.
For GPE environment:
- FBReader 0.8.17 binary package for devices with resolution 240x320.
- FBReader 0.8.17 binary package for devices with resolution 640x480.