[OLPC-SF] Sugar packages for Karmic

[Sameer Verma]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Grant Bowman <grantbow at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is great news!  David Farning at Sugar Labs is beginning work on
> official Ubuntu packages.
>
> Grant Bowman
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam
>

Wow! I just installed Sugar packages to our LTSP lab running on Karmic
Koala (older instructions at
http://www.nubae.com/sugar-on-ltsp-ubuntu-intrepid-ibex). I should add
the PPA and try it out.

Sameer

>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org>
> Date: Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:24 PM
> Subject: karmic packages available.
> To: ubuntu-sugarteam <ubuntu-sugarteam at lists.ubuntu.com>
>
>
> Thanks to Alsroot we now have karmic packages available for ubuntu.
> These packages are available from his ppa at
> https://launchpad.net/~alsroot/+archive/sugar-0.86 .
>
> To install these pachagesjust go into synaptic and add
> ppa:alsroot/sugar-0.86 to your repository list.  It strikes me that
> Sugar Labs' biggest blocker for adoption is the lack of ubuntu
> packages.  As such I have stepped down from my other roles in Sugar
> Labs to work on packaging for Ubuntu.
>
> My plan is to take Alsroot's root packages and Create official
> Packages for Ubuntu.
>
> I am doing my initial work at
> https://launchpad.net/~dfarning/+archive/sugar/  Once the packages
> stabilize, I will move them to
> https://launchpad.net/~sugarteam/+archive/ppa for wider testing.
>
> From there we can move the packages into 9.10 backports.  I am very
> new at Ubuntu packaging so I am intentionally limiting the initial
> scope.  Once the backports are ready, I intend to focus on Sugar .87+
> for Ubuntu10.04.
>
> Please be patient.  This process is probably going to take at least 6
> months.  I personally need to:
> 1. Learn ubuntu packaging.
> 2. Create high quality packages for ubuntu
> 3. Become a MOTU so we can review and upload new package updates for ourselves.
>
> david
>
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