[IAEP] modifying sugar tutorial: different paths for SoaS

[Bill Kerr]

On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 11:55, Bill Kerr<billkerr at gmail.com> wrote:
> > thanks Tomeu (for the linux pointers too)
> > sadly I cannot complete the sugar modification tutorial
> > I keep getting messages like "liveuser is not in the sudoers file" and
> > "Permission denied" for example when I try to make a backup file with cp
> > SoaS is acting more like a live CD when it comes to linux commands
> > Very sad - my students won't be able to hack the system :-(
>
> Yeah, Fedora (and I guess other distros) doesn't ship with sudo
> activated by default :(
>
> But you should be able to do the same by using su instead of sudo:
>
> su -c 'cp somefile /etc/.'
>
> Or "su -" to get into a root shell.


excellent - they both worked :-)

that makes a huge difference for my course plans -- thanks tomeu



>
>
> I have heard that latest experimental SoaS images have sudo installed
> by default, so in the next release sudo will work fine in SoaS as
> well.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
> > On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 07:47, Bill Kerr<billkerr at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > http://en.flossmanuals.net/Sugar/ModifyingSugar
> >> >
> >> > 4. The Home View code is in /usr/share/sugar/shell/view/Home. Type
> this
> >> > command and press enter:
> >> >
> >> > cd /usr/share/sugar/shell/view/home
> >> >
> >> > the paths have changed for SoaS
> >> > I spent some time looking for favoritesview.py couldn't find it
> >> > I tried some recursive searches but my grasp of linux command line is
> >> > limited or perhaps the files have changed name too?
> >> > can someone tell me where to find favoritesview.py
> >> > I'm happy to edit the tutorial once I know the changes
> >>
> >> Hi Bill,
> >>
> >> the shell sources have been moved from /usr/share/sugar/shell to
> >> /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/jarabe.
> >>
> >> But there have been other file layout changes inside the shell, these
> >> commands should help you find stuff:
> >>
> >> find /usr -iname favoritesview.py
> >> find /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/jarabe -iname \*.py
> >> grep -R "class FavoritesView" /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/jarabe
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Tomeu
> >>
> >> > thanks
> >> >
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>



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Bill Kerr
http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/
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