[olpc-community-support] How do I save an image from the web

[Michael Stone]

An alternate approach is to use the tool 'wget' to download your image
in the terminal, e.g.:

  wget -O my.jpg http://some.where/some.jpg
  wget http://some.other/file.jpg

would produce 'my.jpg' and 'file.jpg' in the current directory.

Michael


On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 08:31:36PM +0000, phigan wrote:
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> russelldad at gmail.com wrote:
> > Is there a way to save an image from a web page onto the XO hard drive, and then get the path to that image so that I can upload it?
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> You may be able to enter the direct URL of the image you want to save, but I have not attempted this with the Browse activity.
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> Opera (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Opera) is what I've been using, and it seems to work pretty well! You have to install it and run it in Terminal. Things you need to know:
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> Opera-activity on that page doesn't work right now.
> When you download something in the Browse activity, it goes into the Journal and in /home/olpc/.sugar/default/datastore/store as a funky filename. Match up the date and filesize, 'cp' it to your /home/olpc directory, and then erase it from the Journal.
> To install an rpm, do this as root: rpm -vi <filename>
> To run opera after it's installed: opera &
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> It gives you a right-click menu and will let you save images.
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> - Joe
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