[IAEP] sugar on standard laptops

[Morgan Collett]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:44, Morgan Collett <morgan.collett at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:53, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Also, there aren't enough activities yet in Ubuntu packages. I have
>> only 12 installed, and I am told by Synaptic that I can't install
>> Write because Python-AbiWord is not installable. Actually, it isn't in
>> the repository. I suppose I should bug that. Ticket #7245.
>>
>> Ubuntu already has it.
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sugar-write-activity/+bug/219358,
>> from April, 2008.
>>
>> We can certainly make a start on trials with what is there plus
>> standard Linux packages outside Sugar. I have to Alt-Tab between Sugar
>> and Gnome to do that, and I don't know how that would work for young
>> children.
>
> Enable the Sugar PPA (see https://launchpad.net/~sugar/+archive/) to
> get the version of abiword that Write needs - as well as a couple of
> extra activities. These could not be packaged in time for the Hardy
> release.
>
> Jani tried hard to get more activities in, but there were license
> issues with some activities and the activity authors were not
> responsive to fix this, so those activities could not be included.
>
> Also, see http://janimo.blogspot.com/2008/02/sugar-finally-in-hardy-universe.html
> for the reasons why some activities were not included due to
> dependencies on other things that weren't ready.

http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-April/005348.html has
Jani's mail on the details...

Regards
Morgan