[Server-devel] [UKids] easiest way to automate install of a collection 12+ PDF's onto Sugar on XOs?

James Cameron quozl at laptop.org
Thu Apr 19 20:17:56 EDT 2018


Which things are truly important depend on the circumstances, and only
the teacher will know.  For instance, without deleting the identity
key the activity collaboration feature will fail in strange ways.

On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 07:07:09PM -0400, Adam Holt wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 6:58 PM, Adam Holt <[1]holt at laptop.org> wrote:
> 
>     On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 11:54 PM, Tony Anderson <[2]tony_anderson at usa.net>
>     wrote:
>    
>         A teacher should never 'rm -rf /home/olpc/.sugar'. If the intent is to
>         remove the Journal because of space considerations, 'rm -rf /home/olpc/
>         sugar/datastore' is sufficient. After this command the XO needs to be
>         rebooted to create a new empty datastore.
> 
>    
>     'rm -rf /home/olpc/sugar/datastore' is not sufficient to accomplish the
>     required task (deleting the child's Sugar name).
> 
>     'rm /home/olpc/.sugar' is the only way we know.  (Unless there's a better
>     approach ?)
> 
> There are many similar suggestions here:
> 
>    [3]http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Imaging/Side_effects
> 
> Which of the above are truly important for a teacher to type in at the
> beginning of the semester, to clean out Sugar on an XO.
> 
> Teachers much prefer something very short like "rm -rf /home/olpc/.sugar"
> (unless there's a better way?)
> 
> PS Naturally Gnome is not as easy to clean out, if students have left MP3's and
> personal files lying around!
> 
> References:
> 
> [1] mailto:holt at laptop.org
> [2] mailto:tony_anderson at usa.net
> [3] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Imaging/Side_effects

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