If you keep good notes, I will turn them into better documentation than we have now. I have been distressed by the lack of working Ubuntu Sugar packages for the last six months.
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 17:58, Grant Bowman <grant...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is great news! David Farning at Sugar Labs is beginning work on > official Ubuntu packages. > > Grant Bowman > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: David Farning <dfarn...@sugarlabs.org> > Date: Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:24 PM > Subject: karmic packages available. > To: ubuntu-sugarteam <ubuntu-sugart...@lists.ubuntu.com> > > > Thanks to Alsroot we now have karmic packages available for ubuntu. > These packages are available from his ppa at > https://launchpad.net/~alsroot/+archive/sugar-0.86 . > > To install these pachagesjust go into synaptic and add > ppa:alsroot/sugar-0.86 to your repository list. It strikes me that > Sugar Labs' biggest blocker for adoption is the lack of ubuntu > packages. As such I have stepped down from my other roles in Sugar > Labs to work on packaging for Ubuntu. > > My plan is to take Alsroot's root packages and Create official > Packages for Ubuntu. > > I am doing my initial work at > https://launchpad.net/~dfarning/+archive/sugar/ Once the packages > stabilize, I will move them to > https://launchpad.net/~sugarteam/+archive/ppa for wider testing. > > From there we can move the packages into 9.10 backports. I am very > new at Ubuntu packaging so I am intentionally limiting the initial > scope. Once the backports are ready, I intend to focus on Sugar .87+ > for Ubuntu10.04. > > Please be patient. This process is probably going to take at least 6 > months. I personally need to: > 1. Learn ubuntu packaging. > 2. Create high quality packages for ubuntu > 3. Become a MOTU so we can review and upload new package updates for > ourselves. > > david > > -- > Ubuntu-sugarteam mailing list > ubuntu-sugart...@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-sugarteam > _______________________________________________ > OLPC-SF mailing list > olpc...@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf > -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://www.earthtreasury.org/ _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel