[sugar] Status of Sugar in Ubuntu 8.04

[Ryan Pavlik]

Jani Monoses wrote:
> Hello,
>
> while some important activities are missing, Sugar can be installed and 
> used in Ubuntu 8.04 out of the official Universe repositories. It is a 
> very easy way of trying it out.
>
> The packages to install are sugar-emulator and sugar-activities.
>
> The latter is a metapackage depending on
>
> sugar-calculate-activity
> sugar-chat-activity
> sugar-connect-activity
> sugar-logviewer-activity
> sugar-memorize-activity
> sugar-pippy-activity
> sugar-terminal-activity
> sugar-turtleart-activity
> sugar-web-activity
>
> It can be started from the command prompt as sugar-emulator or from the 
> application menu item of the same description. There's also a GDM login 
> option for Sugar which will run it natively instead of in Xephyr. The 
> latter option I have not tested as much as the emulator.
>
> Abiword 2.6 did not make it in Ubuntu 8.04 but if you add the Sugar repo 
> for Hardy as described at
>
> https://launchpad.net/~sugar/+archive/
>
> you can also install python-abiword and then sugar-write-activity, 
> sugar-jigsawpuzzle-activity and sugar-sliderpuzzle-activity from 
> Universe will work as well.
>
> Squeak in Ubuntu is not new enough and does not include the Etoys image 
> so that activity is missing too.
>
> The read activity does not work either - hopefully the Sugar specific 
> changes to Evince will be pushed upstream in this 2.23 GNOME cycle.
>
> Penguintv and TamTam are also notably missing, neither included license 
> texts in the tarballs at the time of packaging, and that prevents 
> uploading to Ubuntu - or any distro for that matter AFAIK.
>
> Paint and Record contain i386 specific shared objects so I wanted to 
> take the time and see how those are best installed without breaking 
> either Sugar's "one directory pe activity" or Debian's packaging
> policy.
>
> It looks like plenty of things are missing, but it's ok for getting 
> started in learning or developing for Sugar and for interacting with 
> other Sugar installations on the Internet.
>
> Jani
>
>   
RE abiword:  The packages that will become official are currently at 
https://launchpad.net/~abiryan/+archive and will officially be at 
https://launchpad.net/~abiword-stable/+archive where I have 2.6 packages 
from Dapper through Gutsy too.  I'd prefer not to have two different 
versions floating around - if you could take a look at my packages and 
see if they are missing anything for your use, that would be great, let 
me know.  (I've been told on IRC in #ubuntu-devel we should be able to 
get it in for 8.04.1)

(I see you seem to only have lib-abiword packages - unfortunately I 
don't have time right now to take a closer look.)

I would also like to take a look at your pyabiword packages in the next 
month and see if we can get them standardized and such.

Thanks!

Ryan

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