Activity pack
What is an Activity Pack?
An Activity Pack is a collection of Activity Bundles.
Existing Activity Packs
All activity packs should have a descriptive page in Category:Activity Pack. Here are some notable ones:
Other sets of activities
- Activities/Other - a list of miscellaneous activities, including testing, noneducational, incomplete, and example-code activities.
Installing an activity pack
To use an activity pack: Install an activity pack
Linux will boot and unpack each of the bundles into place.
- Another future option for installing 'activity pack' bundles, from console use xo-get.
Update.1 and activity packs
Activities are no longer bundled with the core build in 8.1.0 ("Update.1") and subsequent releases (see Testing Update.1). So if you are updating a laptop you should prepare a USB flash drive per the instructions above. When you reboot after olpc-update, you can install activities at the same time.
Creating your own activity pack
The create-customization-key Python script will create a bundles/ directory with the activities for G1G1 (or Mexico, or Peru, or "all"). You should first unpack a customization key image (e.g. see Customization key) onto a USB flash drive, and then in the root of the USB flash drive run
python create-customization-key G1G1
The advantage of creating the USB flash drive contents yourself is that you get the very latest activities from the Update.1 repository, as opposed to the versions from the time the Activity Pack was last updated.