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[davereno]

Teapot- really appreciate this - thanks to you I now have a laptop that looks very cool (my wife actually lets me leave it out in the living room as the mp3 player for our stereo) and is extremely functional.  That said, the instructions still leave a lot to be desired.  I would have paid good money for a simpler set (and I would have paid even more good money for a 1 or 2 step process - ie would it be possible to use synergy to run all of this as a script from another computer?  anyone doing this has to have another machine anyways to get the tarball)

I kept some notes while I did the install - I think the "screenshot" instructions need some updating (I'm assuming they are intended to be the master) - thought it might help others new to linux.  Could also be that I made some mistakes

Just for reference - I used a 4GB SD card (actually a micro SD inside of an adapter card - but I don't think it matters) - that I had used before but I erased all the files first.  My XO is on build 703 - but I don't think this matters either

1- to get the tarball, I installed uTorrent on my windows computer (just googled it - and ignored the portforwarding installation stuff since I just want it to download this one file) and copy-pasted your link into the window that opens I clicked "add torrent from url" - http://mars.illtel.denver.co.us/~abelits/torrents/OLPCFiles-hardy-20080506.tar.bz2.torrent

2 - I then followed the instructions in http://mars.illtel.denver.co.us/~abelits/images/olpc-ubuntu/

2.5 - there is no text in the instructions stating that the USB drive should be plugged into the XO - since there is such a huge explicit picture of the SD installation, I missed the fact that the USB drive is plugged in the pictures - didnt realize the issue until I went to "mount" in the "Creating directory, mounting filesystem, finding and extracting tarball" step and didn't get a /media/blah blah in the response.  Recommend to make it more obivous that the USB drive should be plugged in for idiots like me.  Had to reboot and start over once I realized this

3 - I had a problem with this step (probably because the USB drive wasn't plugged in?):
umount /dev/mmcblk0p1
I got "umount: /dev/mmcblk0p1: not mounted"
instead of "...:not found"
(the second time I went through - after I realized I need the USB drive)
I got no response - just went back to the prompt -- I kept going anyway - seemed OK.  Recommend to make it more clear what to expect after this command - especially if there are multiple responses that are "OK"

4 - The first time I entered the tar xjvf ... command - I got an error saying the file wasn't found.  I realized the file name has been changed from OLPCFiles-hardy-prerelease... to OLPCFiles-hardy-20080506...  Once I substituted the new file name - it worked fine.  Recommend to update the file name.

5 - checking directory contents - what am I check for?  there are some significant differences between my directory and your screenshot - including some red-outlined files "initrd.img" and "vmlinuz".  assume the screenshot is outdated?

6 - username and password are not clear in the instructions - I would spell them out - username: olpc and password: olpcolpc

7 - GUI screenshots could be more clear - took me a minute to find the network manager (bottom right corner near clock) and the terminal ("hidden" at the top center of the screen)

8 - Impossible to tell what to do in aptitude from screenshots - I'd make the instructions much more specific and add them to the screenshots - I would change this -
"Update is u (downloads lists of packages), actual upgrade is U (capital) then g"
to this -
"after launching aptitude - type "u" then wait to download the list of packages - then type "U" (capital) to upgrade and wait - then "g" to go (start the upgrade) then wait a while (15 min +) until it finishes"

[davereno]

One more thing - I would add the "mediaplayerconnectivity" addon to firefox to allow playing of internet radio and video files -
1 - go to "edit"-"preferences" in firefox
2 - in "main" push "manage add-ons"
3 - go to "get add-ons" and search for "mediaplayerconnectivity" and install

[AppleIIGuy]

Has anybody been able to get ubuntu's update-manager to install correctly via apt-get or any other way?

Code:

root@OLPC:~# apt-get install update-manager
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  python-vte
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  python-vte update-manager
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/938kB of archives.
After this operation, 2454kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/python-vte_1%3a0.16.13-1ubuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 files list file for package `python-gnupginterface' is missing final newline
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/python-vte_1%3a0.16.13-1ubuntu1_i386.deb
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[StewieGriffin]

Has anybody been able to get ubuntu's update-manager to install correctly via apt-get or any other way?

Code:

root@OLPC:~# apt-get install update-manager
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  python-vte
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  python-vte update-manager
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/938kB of archives.
After this operation, 2454kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/python-vte_1%3a0.16.13-1ubuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 files list file for package `python-gnupginterface' is missing final newline
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/python-vte_1%3a0.16.13-1ubuntu1_i386.deb
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

All of this worked for me the first time.  I installed synaptic package manager first, then installed gnome-user-group-manager and then the update-manager.

[brettpim]

I just installed Hardy on an 8G SD card and things are working very well.  Thank you teapot!  I am interested to hear when camera support is achieved.

I have been trying to record sound in Audacity (or anything else that someone can suggest) and all I am getting right now is feedback.  Can anyone help me out?

thanks
brettpim

[pwmowers]

Teapot-
You have done a fantastic job with your Hardy Heron release. Just about everything works as planned.

I sudo'd and used apt-get to install Synaptic and that has made it a lot easier to update files and install programs.

One thing that I cannot find is the Admin panel for adding users, configuration, etc. Whenever I look at the documentation for xubuntu, it will say to go to

System > Administration > Users and Groups

Until I added Synaptic there was no menu item for system.  I am pretty much a noobie to Linux, and am probably having an ID10T moment, but do you know where I should look?

[AppleIIGuy]

StewieGrifin it is working for me now too after sugar decided to hose my sd card.... I did a reinstall unto the card and it did work.

[tangomike]

"I just installed Hardy on an 8G SD card and things are working very well.  Thank you teapot!  I am interested to hear when camera support is achieved." - brettpim

The stuff in this thread works in moo's ubuntu:

http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=2494.msg19831#msg19831

[teapot]

"I just installed Hardy on an 8G SD card and things are working very well.  Thank you teapot!  I am interested to hear when camera support is achieved." - brettpim

The stuff in this thread works in moo's ubuntu:

http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=2494.msg19831#msg19831

This should work in Hardy as well.

I have managed to get wxcam to do real-time video recording to work with low frame rates, the only real problem is wrong frame rate being recorded into the file, what I am trying to fix (along with other changes such as new packaged version of kernel).

I have to apologize for delaying release and responses -- I was busy with non-XO-related Linux software development at work.

[teapot]

I have been trying to record sound in Audacity (or anything else that someone can suggest) and all I am getting right now is feedback.  Can anyone help me out?

I haven't checked this on XO, however Audacity has controls  for playing sound in software as it records, and Xfce mixer has the same for mixing recording input into output. Both should be off to prevent feedback unless you are using headphones.

[tangomike]

I have been trying to record sound in Audacity (or anything else that someone can suggest) and all I am getting right now is feedback.  Can anyone help me out?

thanks
brettpim

Open the mixer; select Inputs; turn the microphone level down some; or
Open the mixer; select speaker level; turn it down.

[JoeMac]

pwmowers - the GUI based system administration tools, including "Users and Groups" are available by installing the "xubuntu-desktop" package, which you can get using the Synaptic Package Manager.  The only hitch I found was that I had to edit the PolicyKit.conf file as per Trailboss' instructions to get everything working properly (see here: http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=2240.msg22787#msg22787 )

This package also installs some rudimentary power management (screen dims when you unplug the charger) and Ubuntu's Update Manager.

[helge]

Has anyone already compiled a new kernel for use with xubuntu that includes the SD corruption fix?
It would be really nice to have a simple drop-in replacement for the 703 kernel that allows enabling suspend/resume in xubuntu.

BTW, as this is my first post here, a really big thank you to teapot and all other contributors! I would never have had enough time to install and tweak xubuntu on my XO without your ready-made tarball.

[Directive0]

Has anyone already compiled a new kernel for use with xubuntu that includes the SD corruption fix?
It would be really nice to have a simple drop-in replacement for the 703 kernel that allows enabling suspend/resume in xubuntu.

BTW, as this is my first post here, a really big thank you to teapot and all other contributors! I would never have had enough time to install and tweak xubuntu on my XO without your ready-made tarball.

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