On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 11:51 -0600, Steve Kay wrote: > I used to be smart, then I met LINUX! I do not seem to find any > "packages" at the links, only links to FTP sites containing text > files. I do not seem to be able to do diddly with tar or tar-gz files > using KDE on gutsy gibbon OS T41. > hi steve,
don't bother with tar files. i would definitely try the second method i mentoin first -- that is, installing packages from jani's personal archive. this is quite straightforward, actually. first step is to add jani's "repository" to your list of package sources. I always do this at the command line, though i think it is also quite easy to do in the GUI tools that ubuntu provides. however, i don't use kde so i'm not entirely familiar with those tools. Anyway, you need to add two lines to the file /etc/apt/sources.list. So you do something like this: sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list then add the following lines : deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/jani/ubuntu gutsy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/jani/ubuntu gutsy main you also need to be sure that gutsy-updates is enabled, so make sure this line is uncommented in the file: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-updates main restricted universe then exit the editor and update the packages list: sudo apt-get update now you should be ablle to install the whole environment with sudo apt-get install sugar-emulator sugar-activities or ffrom the main package management tool (i think in kubuntu it's called adept). look through the comments of jani's blog entries (urls in last email); ti remember there were some comments about additional packages that needed to be installed for use on ubuntu. i hope that works again, let me (and the list) know if it doesn't. matt > On Dec 29, 2007 9:29 AM, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 06:42 -0600, Steve Kay wrote: > > I am a 58 yr old IT professional who can not seem to master > LINUX. I > > have figured out Commodore assembly through MS VISTA but > for the life > > of me can not seem to get the syntax correct in LINUX. All I > want to > > do is give my son an IBM T41 emulating "SUGAR"/XOXO that I > have > > running on KUBUNTU to make the G1G1 a better experience for > his > > children when it arrives. > > > i would definitely advise against trying to use the standard > emulation > images, as they take some work to get running. I would advise > instead > either building from source using sugar-jhbuild or installing > the sugar > and activity packages from jani's personal archive. > > try the second option first, following the instruuctions found > here: > http://janimo.blogspot.com/2007/11/try-sugar-xo-laptops-interface.html > and here: > https://edge.launchpad.net/~jani/+archive > > if that doesn't seem to work for you, you can build sugar > yourself > without too much trouble; in a terminal first execute the > following: > sudo apt-get remove sugar > sudo apt-get build-dep sugar > > then follow the build instructions from the olpc website: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_on_Ubuntu_Linux > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_with_sugar-jhbuild > > you may need to apt-get install git to get things started. > > email back if you have trouble. good luck, > > matt > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sugar mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > -- > Matt Price > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
