[sugar] Update.1 RC3: candidate-703 Published!

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 01.04.2008, at 02:40, Stefan Reitz wrote:
> > >> > wget dev.laptop.org/~bert/update-activities.py
> > >> > python update-activities.py
> > >> -bash-3.2# python update-activities.py (auto complete worked for
> > >> the command)
> > >> switching to user olpc ...
> > >> bash: update-activities.py: command not found
> > >>
> > >> what am I missing?
> > >
> > > Run it as user olpc instead of root.
> >
> > That, or
> >
> > chmod +x update-activities.py
> > ./update-activities.py
> >
> > Looks like my user-switching hack does not work when run as "python
> > update-activities.py".
> >
> > - Bert -
>
> Since my system came back with no activities (and a new bios) the  
> only way to do something was ctrl-alt-f2.
> Enter got me logged in as root. As such
> wget dev.laptop.org/~bert/update-activities.py    worked, then did
> chmod +x update-activities.py        and
> ./update-activities.py       same result as before (--> switching to  
> user olpc ...
> > >> bash: update-activities.py: command not found)
> switching to user olpc didn't help right away since now I couldn't  
> see the file (belonging to root and being in root's ~) anymore...  
> And I couldn't download it as olpc to its ~ because dev.laptop.org  
> couldn't be resolved (as olpc)
> So I turned root again and copied update-activities.py to /home/ 
> olpc, changed the owner
> chown olpc:olpc update-activities.py         turned root again
> su olpc          Then
> ./update-activities.py worked (If this doesn't work for someone  
> else, remember I did the
> chmod +x update-activities.py   early on...)
> ctrl-alt-f3 got my back to the sugar interface
>
> I encountered a bunch of "caution: excluded filename not matched:  
> mimetype", but I don't know if this has any consequences.
> The order of the activity Icons has greatly changed - is there a way  
> for me to influence their order of appearance?
>
> Thanks for the hints, I couldn't have done without.

Ah. Thanks, I identified the problem: when you download the script to  
~root then the user olpc cannot read from that directory. It's better  
to download to ~olpc anyway so it survives the next system upgrade. I  
will remove the user-switching magic from the script, learned my  
lesson ;)

New instructions are:

su - olpc
wget dev.laptop.org/~bert/update-activities.py
python update-activities.py

- Bert -