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{{Users}}
Applications for use in Sugar are called '''[[OLPC Human Interface Guidelines/Activities|Activities]]'''. This page lists {{Preinstalled}} activities and describes how to find others you can install yourself. The name of an activity links to more information about it; if you're using an XO you can click its download link to install it. For books, images, and other collections of [[Browse|browsable]] material, see our set of '''[[collections]]'''.

* For a quick overview of our activities, see the [http://laptop.org/gettingstarted laptop.org] website.
* For a list of all downloadable activities, see '''[[Activities/All]]'''.
* Other lists of downloadable bundles: [[Activities/G1G1]], [[Collections]].

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== Installing one activity ==

See [[Activity installation]] to install groups of activities.

To install an Activity:
(only if you have an XO)

# start the [[Browse]] activity on your XO;
# go to this page in the browser;
# click on the link to an .xo bundle next to the word ''Download:''
# When the download is complete, click "Show in Journal". (If you click "OK", you can continue browsing and finish the installation from the Journal later.)
# You'll be taken to detail view in the Journal.
# Click on "Star" to launch the Activity. The Activity will start and be installed. It will be included in the list mode of the Home view.
#* ''(prior to release [[8.2.0]])'' scroll the taskbar in the Home view to the right (by clicking on the arrow [[Image:Frame-scroll-right.gif|25px]]) until you see the icon for the activity; click on it to start.

A detailed description with images is in the [[Browse#Install_an_activity|Browse activity's page]].

== Uploading new activities ==
{{Developers}}

Add new activities by following the instructions on the '''[[Creating an activity]]''' page (Please be sure to read our human interface [[OLPC_Human_Interface_Guidelines|guidelines]] in addition to the [[activity guidelines]]). When adding your new activity to this page, follow the template syntax as described on the [[Template:Activity]] page.

== Lists of Activities ==

=== Featured on 8.2 ===
{{:Activities/G1G1/8.2}}

=== Other ===
* '''[[Activities/All]]''' - all tested educational activities
* '''[[Activities/Other]]''' - all others, including partly-finished and just fun activities
* '''[[Collections]]''' of library content are organized separately.
Specific collections of activity and content are available; see the '''[[WorldWideWorkshop]]''' and '''[[GCompris]]''' activity sets, and repositories of [[Etoys]] projects at '''[http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/projects/olpc/ Potsdam University]'''.

Note: The [[Activity packs]] page is being deprecated in favor of pages such as [[Activities/Peru]]

== Other installation options ==

{{:Activity installation}}

== Removing activities ==
=== via Terminal ===
Open the [[Terminal Activity]], and do the following (depends on whether you installed activities yourself or not) replacing ''ActivityName'' with the name of the activity (e.g. [[TamTam|TamTamMini]]) :
:''Note: You may want to "ls" before you "rm" so you can see what's in the directory and what options you have. ''

'''If done carelessly (e.g. removing [[Terminal]], [[Browse]], or [[Journal]]) your machine may operate in reduced functionality until you manually reinstall the activity!'''

cd Activities
rm -r ''ActivityName''.activity

=== via the Sugar shell ===
''to be added''

== See also ==
* [http://www.laptop.org/8.2.0/manual/Sugar_InstallingActivities.html "Installing activities"] and other pages about Activities in the [http://www.laptop.org/manual manual] for [[Release notes/8.2.0|Release 8.2.0]].
** For prior releases, "[http://laptop.org/7.1.0/gettingstarted/activities.shtml using activities]" page in the [http://laptop.org/gettingstarted OLPC getting started guide]
* See also : [[Activity bundle]], [[Collections]], [[Software ideas]], [[List of activity summaries]]

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