On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 19:22, Frederick Grose <[email protected]> wrote: > From a new question on the wiki: > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_help#on_Sugar_activities > I downloaded Sugar on a Stick and ran it on my computer -- however, the > project I'm working with is about the Calculate activity. I found how to > download the Calculate activity from your Activities page, however I don't > know how to take that downloaded activity and incorporate it into my USB > device/environment. So my question is: How can I take a downloaded activity > and use it with Sugar on a Stick? > There are a number of ways to install new Activities into Sugar:
Hi Frederick, your answer looks great to me, was wondering if a link to http://en.flossmanuals.net/Sugar/InstallingActivities would be helpful, maybe allowing the FAQ be a bit shorter. Cheers, Tomeu > Using the Browse Activity in Sugar, navigate to the Sugar Activity > Library (http://activities.sugarlabs.org), find the Activity you want and > click the 'Download Now' button. In Sugar, you should see an alert that > counts down the transfer. Once the download is saved, a new alert offers to > show the new Activity in your Journal. Clicking the 'Show in Journal' button > will take you to a detail view of the <ActivityName>.xo entry. Clicking the > icon at the top left of this view will launch the Activity. The Home view > favorites and Journal will show the new Activity installed. > If the Activity is downloaded to another computer, the downloaded activity > is contained in the <ActivityName>.xo file that is saved on the computer > that did the download. If you have another USB device, copy that file to the > root folder, "/", at the base of your USB device. Then boot Sugar on a Stick > and go to the Journal. When the second USB device is inserted, it should > appear in the bottom bar of the Journal. Clicking on the USB device icon > will show its contents. Drag the <ActivityName>.xo file to the Journal icon > at the far left of the bottom bar. Then click on the Journal icon and the > <ActivityName>.xo entry will display at the top of the Journal. Click the > icon for <ActivityName> and it will launch. > If the downloaded <ActivityName>.xo file is copied to the SoaS USB device, > and that device is booted into Sugar, one may use the Terminal activity to > unzip the file into the /home/liveuser/Activities folder using these > commands: cd /home/liveuser/Activities/ (The /home/liveuser/ path may be > substituted with /home/olpc/ on an XO.) unzip /mnt/live/<ActivityName>.xo > (The /mnt/live/path-to-.xo may be substituted with an accessible > <ActivityName>.xo path.) The Activity will appear in the Home view > favorites, and after it has been launched, it will appear in the Journa > > This is a good candidate for the > FAQ, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/FAQ#Activities, once the > community has had a chance to refine the text. > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
