Need help installing an activity

[Bert Freudenberg]

Are you sure it is a network timeout, not a D-Bus timeout?

Also, the script will not work from the console, only from the  
Terminal activity.

If this does not work, please open a bug report.

- Bert -


On 02.06.2008, at 12:23, shivaprasad javali wrote:

> Hi Bert,
>
>           I tried sugar-install-bundle its giving me an error  
> timeout in the network connection. Do i have to be connected in the  
> network before I can run that command??
>
>          Also i tried Simon's suggestion in the follow up mail. When  
> i try to install it through the browse activity it just stays on  
> that page for a long time with a waiting mouse cursor and then  
> abruptly quits without installing the activity. Also i cannot find  
> an entry for that download in the journal
>
>      Can you think of anything that i might be doing wrong??  When I  
> use unzip to unzip the .xo file in the appropriate directory and  
> restart the xserver it works fine.
>
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Bert Freudenberg  
> <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>
> On 02.06.2008, at 10:29, shivaprasad javali wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>     I prepared a .xo file for my application to be installed on the  
> XO. I created the .xo file by running the zip command on the  
> activity folder. Now if I have to install the activity through a  
> thumb drive, I go to the terminal move to Activities folder and then  
> unzip the .xo file there. Then I have to restart the xserver for my  
> activity to show up on the home page.
>
>
>    Is there any way I can install the activity like this without  
> having to restart the xserver or restart the xserver implicitly??
>
> Yes. Use "sugar-install-bundle /path/to/bundle.xo" from the Terminal  
> activity, which unzips the activity and tells the Sugar shell that  
> it was installed.
>
>
>    Also can I do the installation through the journal if I have  
> the .xo file on a thumb drive??
>
>
> Yes. Clicking the .xo in the Journal view of your USB drive will  
> install it.
>
> - Bert -
>
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