[Sugar-devel] Help-21 fails to start

[Tony Anderson]

I am trying to install help-20 (from Godiard's repository). I downloaded 
the zip and put it in an XO-1.75 in /home/olpc/Documents. I then 
unzipped it and ran python setup.py dist_xo. I then installed the 
activity via sugar-install-bundle. However, it behaves as before.

I am speculating that what is expected to happen is that the html 
versions of the documentation are to be created via the make html. I am 
speculating that this make command depends on an installed python-sphinx 
package. I was able to install the Sphinx on my Ubuntu laptop by pippy. 
However, pippy does not appear to be installed on the XO's.

My next step is to try the make html to see if it generates the html 
version.

Tony


On 3/6/19 11:25 AM, James Cameron wrote:
> Thanks for your interest.
>
> There's no Help-21 yet.  Latest is Help-20.
>
> https://github.com/godiard/help-activity is the most recent source
> code, not https://github.com/sugarlabs/help-activity.  The latter is
> an informative fork.
>
> There should be no html/index.html file in the repository, as it is a
> file generated by building.  The repository is not an activity bundle,
> but source code for building an activity bundle.  The instructions to
> build the bundle include
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Help/Contribute#How_to_get_freshest_Help_sources,
> in particular the dependencies such as Sphinx must be installed, then
> use "make html", and the dist_xo target of setup.py
>
> You'll also see that setup.py is quite different to other activities.
>
> I'm yet to make a new release of Help since v20 in 2015, but it is on
> my list to do.  In deploying it as v20.1 on OLPC laptops, I maintain a
> separate branch, and patch the Sugar version to match what is
> installed.
>
> https://github.com/godiard/help-activity/issues has a list of issues.
>
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 10:41:11AM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote:
>> The version of the Help activity in github.com/sugarlabs has only an es
>> folder in the html folder. It fails to start when trying to display
>> html/inde.html (not found).
>>
>> Tony
>>
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