Completing the Software Update

Justin Long & Joe Carley
University of Georgia

Anolis carolinensis
Photograph by Athena Anderson
Anolis carolinensis Voigt, 1832
Green anole

Updated: 15 January, 2008

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Overview

Update your XO build version using the instuctions here. We are using 767 (8.2.0).

Once updated and rebooted your xo will start software update, make sure to download Browser and Terminal.

Open Terminal by clicking on the rectangle containing $_ on the home screen.

Click on the #_ sign in the upper right corner to change to root.

Type the following commands in terminal pressing enter at the end of each line:
sudo yum remove gnash -y
rpm -iv http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/flash-plugin-10.0.22.87-release.i386.rpm
cd /home/olpc/Activities/Browse.activity
mkdir bak
mv agent-stylesheet.css bak/ .
mv clickToView.xml bak/ .
cd
exit

We create videos using an audio rate of 11,025 Hz, audio bitrate of 32k, video bitrate of 96k, at a size of 160x106, and in the format of flv (flash video). We then stretch this video to 320x112 to be more visible on the xo. While we recognize it is not ideal to 'stretch' video, we have done this at a 2:1 ratio to attempt to provide small filesize videos with very little processor strain for the xo.

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