[Sugar-devel] Does Sugar on XO-1 support Python 3?

[James Simmons]

Ibiam,

I just noticed that SoaS is based on Fedora 34 and the XO-1 distribution is
based on Fedora 18. My guess is that this is because of the large number of
Activities only available for Python 2.

James Simmons


On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 10:09 AM Chihurumnaya Ibiam <ibiam at sugarlabs.org>
wrote:

> Is Python3 installed and working as expected for the XO1?
>
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> Ibiam Chihurumnaya
> ibiam at sugarlabs.org
>
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> On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 3:59 PM James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> One of the tasks in the deployment checklist is to use Browse to install
>> the updated Activity and see if it works. I decided to dig out my XO-1 and
>> update it to the latest version of Sugar and use Gmail to send my .xo files
>> to the laptop for installation. I discovered two things:
>>
>> 1. The Browse Activity cannot log into Gmail because it disables cookies.
>> The version of Browse I can run on Fedora does not have this problem.
>>
>> 2. When I copy the .xo files from a USB drive to the Journal they install
>> OK but don't start. No messages whatsoever in the Log Activity, but empty
>> files are created for messages.
>>
>> It looks like you cannot get a version of Sugar using Python 3 for an
>> XO-1 laptop.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> James Simmons
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