[sugar] OLPC emulation

[Matt Price]

On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 11:51 -0600, Steve Kay wrote:
> I used to be smart, then I met LINUX! I do not seem to find any
> "packages" at the links, only links to FTP sites containing text
> files. I do not seem to be able to do diddly with tar or tar-gz files
> using KDE on gutsy gibbon OS T41. 
> 
hi steve,

don't bother with tar files.  i would definitely try the second method i
mentoin first -- that is, installing packages from jani's personal
archive.  this is quite straightforward, actually.  first step is to add
jani's "repository" to your list of package sources.  I always do this
at the command line, though i think it is also quite easy to do in the
GUI tools that ubuntu provides.  however, i don't use kde so i'm not
entirely familiar with those tools.  Anyway, you need to add two lines
to the file /etc/apt/sources.list.  So you do something like this:

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

then add the following lines :

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/jani/ubuntu gutsy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/jani/ubuntu gutsy main

you also need to be sure that gutsy-updates is enabled, so make sure this line is uncommented in the file:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-updates main restricted universe

then exit the editor and update the packages list:

sudo apt-get update

now you should be ablle to install the whole environment with 

sudo apt-get install sugar-emulator sugar-activities

or ffrom the main package management tool (i think in kubuntu it's
called adept).  

look through the comments of jani's blog entries (urls in last email);
ti remember there were some comments about additional packages that
needed to be installed for use on ubuntu.  

i hope that works  again, let me (and the list) know if it doesn't.

matt


> On Dec 29, 2007 9:29 AM, Matt Price <matt.price at utoronto.ca> wrote:
>         
>         
>         On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 06:42 -0600, Steve Kay wrote:
>         > I am a 58 yr old IT professional who can not seem to master
>         LINUX. I
>         > have figured out Commodore assembly through  MS VISTA but
>         for the life 
>         > of me can not seem to get the syntax correct in LINUX. All I
>         want to
>         > do is give my son an IBM T41 emulating  "SUGAR"/XOXO  that I
>         have
>         > running on KUBUNTU to make the G1G1 a better experience for
>         his 
>         > children when it arrives.
>         
>         
>         i would definitely advise against trying to use the standard
>         emulation
>         images, as they take some work to get running.  I would advise
>         instead
>         either building from source using sugar-jhbuild or installing
>         the sugar 
>         and activity packages from jani's personal archive.
>         
>         try the second option first, following the instruuctions found
>         here:
>         http://janimo.blogspot.com/2007/11/try-sugar-xo-laptops-interface.html
>         and here:
>         https://edge.launchpad.net/~jani/+archive
>         
>         if that doesn't seem to work for you, you can build sugar
>         yourself 
>         without too much trouble; in a terminal first execute the
>         following:
>         sudo apt-get remove sugar
>         sudo apt-get build-dep sugar
>         
>         then follow the build instructions from the olpc website:
>         http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_on_Ubuntu_Linux
>         http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_with_sugar-jhbuild
>         
>         you may need to apt-get install git to get things started. 
>         
>         email back if you have trouble.  good luck,
>         
>         matt
>         
>         
>         > _______________________________________________
>         > Sugar mailing list
>         > Sugar at lists.laptop.org
>         > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
>         --
>         Matt Price
>         matt.price at utoronto.ca
> 
-- 
Matt Price
matt.price at utoronto.ca