Jani Monoses wrote: > Hello, > > while some important activities are missing, Sugar can be installed and > used in Ubuntu 8.04 out of the official Universe repositories. It is a > very easy way of trying it out. > > The packages to install are sugar-emulator and sugar-activities. > > The latter is a metapackage depending on > > sugar-calculate-activity > sugar-chat-activity > sugar-connect-activity > sugar-logviewer-activity > sugar-memorize-activity > sugar-pippy-activity > sugar-terminal-activity > sugar-turtleart-activity > sugar-web-activity > > It can be started from the command prompt as sugar-emulator or from the > application menu item of the same description. There's also a GDM login > option for Sugar which will run it natively instead of in Xephyr. The > latter option I have not tested as much as the emulator. > > Abiword 2.6 did not make it in Ubuntu 8.04 but if you add the Sugar repo > for Hardy as described at > > https://launchpad.net/~sugar/+archive/ > > you can also install python-abiword and then sugar-write-activity, > sugar-jigsawpuzzle-activity and sugar-sliderpuzzle-activity from > Universe will work as well. > > Squeak in Ubuntu is not new enough and does not include the Etoys image > so that activity is missing too. > > The read activity does not work either - hopefully the Sugar specific > changes to Evince will be pushed upstream in this 2.23 GNOME cycle. > > Penguintv and TamTam are also notably missing, neither included license > texts in the tarballs at the time of packaging, and that prevents > uploading to Ubuntu - or any distro for that matter AFAIK. > > Paint and Record contain i386 specific shared objects so I wanted to > take the time and see how those are best installed without breaking > either Sugar's "one directory pe activity" or Debian's packaging > policy. > > It looks like plenty of things are missing, but it's ok for getting > started in learning or developing for Sugar and for interacting with > other Sugar installations on the Internet. > > Jani > > RE abiword: The packages that will become official are currently at https://launchpad.net/~abiryan/+archive and will officially be at https://launchpad.net/~abiword-stable/+archive where I have 2.6 packages from Dapper through Gutsy too. I'd prefer not to have two different versions floating around - if you could take a look at my packages and see if they are missing anything for your use, that would be great, let me know. (I've been told on IRC in #ubuntu-devel we should be able to get it in for 8.04.1)
(I see you seem to only have lib-abiword packages - unfortunately I don't have time right now to take a closer look.) I would also like to take a look at your pyabiword packages in the next month and see if we can get them standardized and such. Thanks! Ryan -- Ryan Pavlik www.cleardefinition.com #282 + (442) - [X] A programmer started to cuss Because getting to sleep was a fuss As he lay there in bed Looping 'round in his head was: while(!asleep()) sheep++; _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
