[IAEP] sugar on standard laptops

[Morgan Collett]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 20:56, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:44 AM, 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.
>>
>> Morgan
>
> Thanks. Can somebody Wiki that? I would, but I'm starting a contract,
> and I should be doing the paperwork right now.

Added to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_on_Ubuntu_Linux#Option_3_-_Hardy_included_packages

Regards
Morgan