Tux Paint

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Tux Paint on the OLPC XO
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Tux Paint

Tux Paint is a drawing app for tiny kids. Most 3-year-old kids and many 2-year-old kids are able to use it, yet 10-year-old kids (and kid-like adults) enjoy it too. Tux Paint features Tux the penguin, like Clippy but not so annoying. Tux Paint uses stereo sound according to where the mouse pointer is. Tux Paint is translated into about 70 different languages, including big-alphabet and right-to-left ones.

Installing

Tux Paint must be installed as /usr/share/activities/TuxPaint.activity because of the way it was built. At the command line, you can use wget to download Tux Paint. Then unzip TuxPaint-1.xo in the /usr/share/activities directory as root. You will need to restart sugar; "telinit 3" followed by "telinit 5" will do this.

It is possible that SDL may need to be installed. Something like "yum install SDL_Mixer SDL_TTF SDL_Image" ought to do.

URLs

Security needs

Tux Paint wants to print, scan /usr/share/fonts, and cooperate with a separate clip-art package.