For the general public
Applications for use in Sugar are called Activities. This page lists Preinstalled activities and describes how to find others you can install yourself. The names of activities link to more information about them; the download links, if downloaded to an XO, will automatically install and show up in the activity bar.
Uploading new activities
Add new activities by following the instructions on the Creating an activity page (Please be sure to read our human interface 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.
Installing Downloaded Activities
To install an Activity:
- start the Browse activity on your XO;
- go to this page in the browser;
- click on the .xo bundle next to the word Download:
- when it's finished, click OK.
- press the Home key (
) (fifth from the upper left) to see the taskbar.
- scroll the taskbar to the right (by clicking on the arrow
) until you see the icon for the activity; click on it to start.
A detailed description with images can be found here.
Lists of Activities
Featured on 8.2
These activities are the ones that Software update in the Sugar Control Panel offers to install and update; they are pre-installed in most laptops running release 8.2.0 received through the 2008 Give One, Get One program.
There are many other activities known to work on release 8.2.0.
The activity versions below are the latest believed to work with release 8.2.0 (or more precisely, the 8.2 build stream).
For laptops running Release 8.1.0, see the earlier G1G1 activity pack. If your XO is not running the latest release 8.2.0 also known as build 767 (here's how to check), then you should consider upgrading to it; the details are in the 8.2.0 release notes.
Activities
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Help: org.laptop.HelpActivity Documentation and Help for the XO
Download: Help (8.2) (v.10)
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Browse: org.laptop.WebActivity Web browser based on xulrunner
Download: Browse (8.2) (v.102)
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Read: org.laptop.sugar.ReadActivity Book/PDF reader
Download: Read (8.2) (v.56)
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Record: org.laptop.RecordActivity Still, video, and audio capture
Download: Record (8.2) (v.64)
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TamTamJam: org.laptop.TamTamJam Music composition and synthesis.
Tamtam has four separate activities : TamTam Jam, Edit, Synthlab, and Mini.
Download: TamTamJam (8.2) (v.54)
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TamTamEdit: org.laptop.TamTamEdit Music composition and synthesis.
See also TamTam Synthlab and Mini.
Download: TamTamEdit (8.2) (v.53)
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Pippy: org.laptop.Pippy Python Programming language/environment
Download: Pippy (8.2) (v.35)
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Etoys: org.vpri.EtoysActivity Learning / programming / authoring environment
Download: Etoys (8.2) (v.94)
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Moon: com.garycmartin.Moon Moon phase viewer, includes Lunar phase information, eclipse data, and various display options.
Download: Moon (8.2) (v.11)
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Ruler: com.laptop.Ruler Graphical cm/mm ruler and grids to take measurements of lengths and angles of objects the size of XO laptop screen
Download: Ruler (8.2) (v.3)
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Scratch: edu.mit.media.ScratchActivity An easy-to-learn, multimedia programming language. Snap together colorful command blocks to create interactive animations, stories, and games, then share your creatiions on the Scratch website.
Download: Scratch (10.1) (v.16)
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Speak: vu.lux.olpc.Speak An animated face that speaks whatever you type
Download: Speak (8.2) (v.18)
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Log: org.laptop.Log An activity version of the Sugar logging tool
Download: Log (8.2) (v.16)
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Content collections
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ICDL: org.icdlbooks.icdl Story books for young children
Download: ICDL (8.2) (v.8)
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Other
Specific collections of activity and content are available; see the WorldWideWorkshop and GCompris activity sets, and repositories of Etoys projects at Potsdam University.
Note: The Activity packs page is being deprecated in favor of pages such as Activities/Peru
Other installation options
From the Internet (G1G1 owners, use this)
With the 8.2.0 release or later pre-release images called joyride:
- Run the Sugar Control Panel by hovering over the central XO-man on the Home view screen.
- Choose 'Software update.' If you are a G1G1 user and have performed a clean install, you will need to re-add the "G1G1 activities group".
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. 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
flash games
via the Sugar shell
to be added
See also
