[olpc-help] Hello World activity - the problem is broader

[OLPC Community Support]

   i am having a similar problem. 
   i would like to know, from 10,000 feet, what is 
an activity: what is an XO bundle? how to validate 
a .xo file as installable, as usable? what is the 
difference between a .xo and a .xol file? 
   i have no windows computers. i use ubuntu linux 
and have access to XO boxes. my preference is to 
learn what to do on the XO box (i don't like 
emulation environments): is it possible to create 
an activity bundle on the XO itself? 
   i have found that the laptop.org wiki is not 
easy to navigate to find answers to the questions 
above. 


On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 10:36 -0400, OLPC Community Support wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I discovered that my problem is broader than the "Hello [Sugar] World" activity I referred to previously.
> 
> ANY ".xo" bundle I download from anywhere other than the "official"  website fails to install. (This is true of this bundle, named "Theorie", found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/musictheory/files/ ).  The files do not get written to /home/olpc/Activities, and when I manually install them, nothing shows up on the home screen, and I don't know what options to give to /usr/bin/sugar-activity to run the activity.
> 
> Please help!  How does a home-brewed module get installed/run??
> 
> ANYONE OUT THERE???
> 
> this list really looks dead. Developers (are they reading this mailing list?) respond once a year, it seems.
> 
> 
> >http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_Activity_HOWTO
> >
> >This does not work for me. Is it outdated?
> >
> >After following the setup instructions and not having the new icon show up on 
> >the home page (following Ctrl+Alt+Erase, Sugar restart), I even tried to just 
> >download the pre-prepared *.xo bundle from the above page; that one failed to 
> >load too.
> >
> >Rebooting didn't help either.
> >
> >Can anyone help?
> >
> >(I am on OLPC build 767 (stream 8.2; variant devel_jffs2))
> >
> >TIA
> >
> >andrew
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