[Sugar-devel] Sugar on a $100 tablet!

[George Hunt]

Ruben,

I was able to install the double boot, and ubuntu touch. But when I ran the
script http://ubuntu.activitycentral.com/install_sugar_on_nexus_7.sh , a
side effect, (verified a second install), was that the ubuntu dash app lens
became inoperative, and I was never able to figure out how to re-initialize
it properly, so that I could find and run the "terminal" app.

I was able to get a root shell via adb, (after scratching my head for a
while because ubuntu returns a different USB device, and needs a new udev
rule to properly select a driver).

I really need terminal on the nexus, in order explore, and  to start the
sugar desktop.

Do you have ideas about re-initializing the dash app local lens? (or maybe
I don't know what's needed -- I need to correct the symptom that the app
search mechanism does not display "terminal" as a choice).

Thanks,

George

On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Ruben Rodríguez <ruben at activitycentral.com
> wrote:

> 2013/9/11 George Hunt <georgejhunt at gmail.com>:
> > I have a nexus, and I'm anxious to learn how to swap out OS, reload
> stuff,
> > etc.
>
> The first step is to install Ubuntu on it, you can follow this howto:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Nexus7/Installation
>
> But I recommend following the procedure to install Multirom to have
> dual boot instead:
> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2011403
> The only downside is that it seems to interfere with Android system
> updates, so you need to upgrade your Android rom manually after that.
>
> Backup and be patient, it takes some time.
>
> When you have ubuntu running on the nexus, activate the
> on-scren-keyboard (small icon on the top bar), open the terminal,
> install ssh and connect to it. Become root and run this script:
> r
>
> This will set some configs, install a bunch of packages including
> Sugar, and install some activities as well.
>
> There are some bugs (mainly in the journal) I'm working in, but it is
> already pretty usable. Please report your findings! :)
>
> > Does Ubuntu talk directly to the hardware?
>
> Yes. The first part of the procedure installs ubuntu in the android
> storage space (a file containing a disk image with ubuntu inside). The
> bootloader then is able to run it instead of android by using kexec.
> This means there is no emulation, you use Ubuntu as if it was
> installed on the machine by itself, and no Android software runs
> alongside it.
>
> > If so, how much variation is there in the hardware? If most tablets are
> based on arm SOC's, this might
> > work across many hardware platforms.
>
> There is a lot of variation between SOC's, in particular you will have
> to fight with the graphics support, the bootloader, the power
> management...
> A recent Linus rant on the topic:https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/9/562
> "I hope that ARM SoC hardware designers all die in some incredibly
> painful accident"
>
> In any case with more or less effort we can make sugar work on any
> machine that already runs GNU/Linux. In the case of the nexus I
> understand Canonical and Google partnered to make it work as a
> development exercise. But new arm devices running
> standard-non-android-distros appear every day, and several platforms
> are already becoming popular, so it is a path worth exploring.
>
> --
> Rubén Rodríguez
> Activity Central: http://activitycentral.com
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