Activity installation

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  For the general public

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with the Sugar control panel

coming in release 8.2.0 and currently available for testing in pre-release images called joyride

  1. Enter the Sugar Control Panel by hovering over the central XO-man on the home screen.
  2. Select the 'Activity update' entry.
  3. Press 'Update'.

with Bert's script

available by download

See Bert's script.

with xo-get

available by download

  • GUI
  • find activities with ./xo-get.py list or ./xo-get.py search ...
  • install with ./xo-get.py install ...
  • list installed activities: ./xo-get.py status
  • remove with ./xo-get.py remove ...

From a USB stick or SD card

with the Browse Activity

always available

  1. open the Browse Activity
  2. point it to file:///media/
  3. install like described at the very top of this page by browsing to and clicking on activities to install

with xo-get

available by download

  1. open the Terminal activity;
  2. ./xo-get.py install /media/<USB stick name>/MyActivity.xo

with sugar-install-bundle

always available

  1. open the Terminal activity;
  2. type sugar-install-bundle /media/<USB stick name>/<Activity name.xo>

with the Journal

always available

  1. You can also install an activity from the Journal by dragging the .xo bundle from the USB device.

with a customization stick

available as of release 8.1.0 (Update.1/official-703).