Activity installation alternatives

  For the general public

  For Developers

If the methods described in Activity installation don't work for you, here are further methods.

From the Internet

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 a customization stick

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

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 sugar-install-bundle

always available

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

with xo-get

available by download

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