Activity installation

  For the general public

  For Developers

From the Internet

with the Sugar control panel

available in 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).