For the general public
Applications for use in Sugar are called Activities. This page lists new and common activities. Most activities have their own details page. If you see a link to a file ending in ".xo" and you are using an XO, click on it to download and install the activity. For books, images, and other collections of browsable material, see also our set of collections.
To install or #Removing activities#remove activities, see the relevant section below.
Lists of Activities
New activities
Activity news and updates:
- Time Lapse Photo v2 "makes the XO camera take a frame every N seconds. currently an ugly unlocalized interface, needs work. v2."
- XOlympics v1 was uploaded to activities.sugarlabs.org
- Food Force 2 v3 reaches its beta release
- Doom v3 added, with new levels.
- StarChart v11 (second production release) is now available. New features help you learn the sky. Now with Spanish localization.
New activities: (add activity-summary templates below)
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.
Installing activities
To install a group of activities at once, see Activity installation. To install a single activity on an XO:
- start the Browse activity on your XO, and browse to this page;
- click on the link to an .xo bundle next to the word Download:
- When the download is complete, click "Show in Journal".
- Click on "Start" in the Journal view to launch the Activity.
A detailed description with images is in "Install an activity" on the Browse activity's page.
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
See also
