Re: [support-gang] support-gang Digest, Vol 109, Issue 15

2017-02-12 Thread Adam Holt
; > > Still no luck getting GCompris installed on XO-1, but FYI for all Nathan > Riddle's 4 wrappers (that clean up activity.info and add an icon for Sugar > ring / Home View, for each of Gcompris, TuxMath, TuxPaint, Firefox) are > published here: > > http://download.unleas

Re: Best GCompris for OLPC OS 13.2.8?

2017-02-12 Thread Adam Holt
I will try all rec's I can, Tuesday after I get home, thanks James for laying out these risks+options. Removing swap is not something I've tried yet, nor do I want to if this slows down kids' XO-1 experiences. Of course if pushed to the wall, and there's no other clean recipe, I suppose it's poss

Re: Best GCompris for OLPC OS 13.2.8?

2017-02-12 Thread James Cameron
What was wrong with my offer? You're not doing anything wrong; it's just the way it is. The way yum works; both the downloaded .rpm files and the unpacked files have to exist at the same time briefly. yum calculates this and tells you it won't work. Removing the swap file will save you no more

Re: [support-gang] Fwd: Re: [UKids] Best GCompris for OLPC OS 13.2.8?

2017-02-12 Thread Adam Holt
On Feb 13, 2017 7:02 AM, "Tony Anderson" wrote: Hi Adam There are two parts to installing GCompris. Installation of GCompris in Gnome by rpm and installation of the .xo wrapper. The Sugar standard was that activities are responsible for installing their dependencies; however, this has been blurr

Re: Best GCompris for OLPC OS 13.2.8?

2017-02-12 Thread Adam Holt
Thanks James & Nathan. This "model" XO-1 has 256MB of disk available on fresh install of 13.2.8, which never falls below 240MB when trying many different ways to install the "7+ MB" TuxMath. So I'm surely doing something wrong, and will keep working on it this week, until I rediscover something l

Re: Best GCompris for OLPC OS 13.2.8?

2017-02-12 Thread James Cameron
Yes, the XO-1 JFFS2 NAND filesystem may report less space after the laptop has been used for a bit. Fresh install gets the best space. (Because JFFS2 compresses data when writing, it cannot know how much free space is available, as because it depends on how compressible the data is. So JFFS2 pro

Re: [support-gang] Fwd: Re: [UKids] Best GCompris for OLPC OS 13.2.8?

2017-02-12 Thread Adam Holt
On Feb 12, 2017 5:01 PM, "Adam Holt" wrote: On Feb 12, 2017 4:08 PM, "Adam Holt" wrote: FYI those who want TuxMath on XO-1: run Nathan's wrapper (TuxMath-3.1.xo, 126KB) after installing the following on XO-1... http://download.unleashkids.org/HaitiOS/bundles/tuxmath-3.xo (7.0 MB) (Without N

Re: [support-gang] Fwd: Re: [UKids] Best GCompris for OLPC OS 13.2.8?

2017-02-12 Thread Adam Holt
On Feb 12, 2017 4:08 PM, "Adam Holt" wrote: FYI those who want TuxMath on XO-1: run Nathan's wrapper (TuxMath-3.1.xo, 126KB) after installing the following on XO-1... http://download.unleashkids.org/HaitiOS/bundles/tuxmath-3.xo (7.0 MB) (Without Nathan's wrapper, error "TuxMath failed to star