[IAEP] [SoaS] [MARKETING] Get Sugar landing page

[Walter Bender]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Dave Bauer <dave at solutiongrove.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Steve Thomas <sthomas1 at gosargon.com>wrote:
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>>> Tried install on a MacBook running Mac OS X 10.6.4. Once I resolved the
>>> file naming problem (see below) was able to get things running fine.
>>>
>>> Downloaded items from Chrome Browser and only ran into one problem, the
>>> downloaded files had repeated file extensions, which caused a problem when
>>> importing the ovf (see images below).  When downloading using Safari, Safari
>>> wants to append .txt to the filename and you have to override that.
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>> Thanks for testing.
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>> I wonder, is there a standard OSX workaround for the pre-pended suffix
>> problem? The file names on the server are fine and download properly in
>> GNU/Linux with both Firefox and Opera and wget.
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> The apache config (presuming its apache) needs to have the mime type set
> for OVF, it must be incorrectly defaulting to text/plain for that file
> extesnion.
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That explains the ovf -> txt problem, but not the repeated file extension
from his Chrome download.

-walter


> Dave
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>> -walter
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>>> [image: Screen shot 2010-09-14 at 1.03.51 PM.png]
>>> )[image: Screen shot 2010-09-14 at 1.05.06 PM.png]
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>>> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
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>>>> I've been doing some work on the Get Sugar landing page in the wiki,
>>>> which has been the source of some confusion amongst our potential user
>>>> community. My proposed modifications (See
>>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Walter/Get_Sugar) are an attempt to
>>>> streamline and consolidate the instructions for first-time users.
>>>> Feedback and testing requested.
>>>>
>>>> thanks.
>>>>
>>>> -walter
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