0.100/Testing

How test Sugar 0.100

We have different ways to test Sugar 0.100:

• Using a testing image (available for XO-1.5 and XO-4)
• Using a 13.2.0 image and installing rpms.
• Using sugar-build

Testing images

This images can be installed in XO without security enabled.

XO-4: 33023xx4.zd (md5)

XO-1.75: 33023xx2.zd (md5)

XO-1.5: 33023xx1.zd (md5)

XO-1: 33023xx0.img 33023xx0.crc(md5)

The olpc-os-builder configuration used to create these images is | here

Installing Sugar 0.100 testing rpms

The first step is install a 13.2.0 image, downloaded | here

The second is create a file /etc/yum.repos.d/au1b-updates.repo with the following contents:

[au1b-updates]
name=au1b-udates
baseurl=http://harvest.one-education.org/public/au1b-updates/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

Later you need do:

rpm -e sugar-update-control
yum update

If you want start fresh, and do not care about LOOSING EVERYTHING YOU HAVE IN YOUR JOURNAL, can do:

rm -rf .sugar

And finally restart your computer.

Using sugar-build

Detailed instructions to use sugar-build are here [1]

New features to test

In addition to the new features described in the Sugar 100 release notes, these builds have some features being developed for the OLPC Australia deployment. These include:

• Age and Gender selection
• Limits to the number of open activities
• Limits to the number of open instances of an activity.
• A webservice for sharing Journal entries with the classroom teacher
• Proxy and hidden network support