Followup: I just made a f14 (rawhide) Remix 0623 (2010) with evince added to soas-spin.ks used f14 rawhide installed on 1 500GB usb drive for a build system on my ACER Aspire One
Burned resulting remix.iso to Cd and booted from CD: Downloaded e-book via Get Books 5 Activity then copied .pdf from journal to 2nd USB In sugar terminal evince File/Open/ 2nd USB containing .pdf's Opened and read 2.5MB On the Origin of the species, 6th edition by Charles Darwin as pdf All on Booted Remix CD >Need access to journal for e-readers.....! >Sugarize evince Tom Gilliard Thomas C Gilliard wrote: > > I just made a 4 GB USB with persistence from soas-i386-20100623.03.iso > In testing: > Read 86, it still fails to start > log showed unable to find/open evince > > I then did 2 experiments: > > 1-) > su > # yum install evince > installed evince i686 0:2.31.3-4.20100621git.fc14 > > In sugar-terminal: > $ evince > starts evince program - able to open files of type: > Postscript > PDF > Tiff > DiVue > All > Tried to open a e-book in sugar-journal > evince could NOT ACCESS JOURNAL. > > 2_) > Shutdown Stick, > Inserted into PC > drag dropped some .pdf files from SCK-DVD into USB when it opened on > the PC Desktop > > Rebooted stick > In sugar terminal: > $evince > Program Starts > Opened pdf files in /mnt/live/: > (This is the directory that opens on the PC Desktop) > -Cautions with using Live USB's.pdf > -Flyer_englisch.pdf > (had 2 separate color pdf instances running at same time,one with > each of the above .pdfs) > > Conclusions: > Why not sugarize evince and use it directly as a way to read e-books > and .pdf's? > Need access to sugar journal for it > or > let e-book readers download files to /mnt/live > > Tom Gilliard > satellit > > PS > soas-i386-20100623.03.iso > No major changes since last Nightly Compose worked > but it IS working again : ) > > _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
