[olpc-help] Updating activities

[Sameer Verma]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:53 AM, Laurie DeMott <demotlj at alfred.edu> wrote:
> I finally bought a replacement keyboard and installed it last night so I
> now have my control key working again.  I decided that I would then update
> to the lastest new build.  (I am currently running 656.)  The update went
> really well except that I have no activities showing and nothing will run
>  from the Journal.  When I tried using the automatic software update in the
> Control Panel, it would say "Starting update" but do nothing more, even if
> I told it only to download the smallest update of less than 50kb.
>
> I then tried downloading the activities bundle to my usb drive and
> inserting that as it booted, as described in the wiki at
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bert's_script.  It claimed it was installing
> everything but when it returned to Sugar, still nothing.
>
> I then tried "Bert's script" as described in the wiki.  As the script ran,
> every activity returned the message "error, permission denied" or
> something like that.
>
> At the moment, I have gone back to using the old build but really liked
> what I could see of the new one and would love to get it working.
> Suggestions?
>
> Laurie DeMott
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If you are doing a full update, try the 767 build with the activities
prepackaged. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/8.2.0#If_your_XO_is_not_connected_to_the_internet

Put those two files on your USB key and re-flash the XO.

cheers,
Sameer
-- 
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
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