Need help installing an activity

shivaprasad javali jbsp72 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 2 06:45:12 EDT 2008


Sorry didnt observe it properly. It is a D-BUS timeout. I am runing the
command from the terminal activity on an actual XO.

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
wrote:

> 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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