[Sugar-devel] [Sugar emulator][Ubuntu 11.04] I can't install an activity (with the setup.py)

[James Simmons]

Laurent,

This may be an issue with sweets.  If you are using Fedora then all you
really need to do is to install the Sugar RPM's that come with the
distribution.  Other distributions should have something similar.  The
module sugar.activity is a set of Python classes.  It should be available
to anyone developing Python code, whether Sugar is running or not.  It is a
fundamental library.  You can't make a Sugar Activity without it.

I don't know what "Sweets" is doing, but if I was in your position I'd
uninstall it and install the Sugar that comes with the distribution.
 Fedora does a very good job packaging Sugar.  Their version of Sugar is
actually newer than most kids use in the field.  If your goal is to develop
Activities there is no reason to use anything else.  If you want to hack on
the Sugar environment itself you would need something newer, but I'd do
Activities first.  New or improved Activities will have a more immediate
benefit to more students than working on Sugar itself, and you'll
understand how to hack Sugar better if you've developed Activities first.

There is a chapter on setting up a development environment in the book.  If
you skipped over it give it another look.

James Simmons


On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 2:00 PM, laurent bernabe
<laurent.bernabe at gmail.com>wrote:

> Unfortunately, I can't launch setup.py from the host system terminal
> => no module called sugar.activity
>
> And that error disappear if I launch setup.py from the sugar emulator
>
>
> 2011/12/5 laurent bernabe <laurent.bernabe at gmail.com>
>
>> Ok, thank you for your answer, I've well understood.
>> I'm going to apply your advice.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>> 2011/12/5 James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com>
>>
>>> Laurent,
>>>
>>> I don't have experience with Sweets, but normally you would install the
>>> version of Sugar that comes with your distribution.  When you launch this
>>> Sugar comes up in a window.  So you have your GNOME desktop where you do
>>> your development work, plus you have this window that contains a Sugar
>>> environment that you use for testing.
>>>
>>> You run setup.py dev from a normal terminal window, not the one that
>>> Sugar provides.  This creates a symbolic link between your source directory
>>> and where Sugar wants your program to be.  After that any changes you make
>>> in your source directory will be reflected in what runs under Sugar.
>>>  You'll probably need to stop and restart your Activity to see your changes
>>> take effect.
>>>
>>> James Simmons
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:28 AM, laurent bernabe <
>>> laurent.bernabe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I am following the ActivitiesGuideSugar pdf from august 2010.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - I've fetched tutorial source code for etext activity (chapter 5 :
>>>>    inheriting from Activity.activity)
>>>>    - I've modified, carefully i think, the svg picture with Inkscape
>>>>    and edited the xml structure
>>>>    - I installed the Sugar Sweets distribution
>>>>
>>>> But when I try to setup the activity from the emulator terminal, I get
>>>> an error saying that there is no module called sugar.activity
>>>> (the line in fault : "from sugar.activity import bundlebuilder".
>>>>
>>>> Have I forgotten an important step in my sugar environment ?
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
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>>>
>>
>
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