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[Amos Blanton <amos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Kevin,

That's great that you managed to install the source tarball on your system!
One of the reasons we decided to make it available was so that someone could
turn it into an rpm, or try installing it on non-Debian based systems. Do
you have any experience making rpms?

By the way - the source is available on svn here:

https://www.assembla.com/spaces/scratchonlinux/trac_subversion_tool

You'll also find the debian folder, which contains files like "rules" which
describe the install process on debian / ubuntu.

Are you able to view Scratch projects in presentation mode (by clicking the
screen icon in the upper right corner?) Part of the build process compiles
several plugins that Scratch uses, including the "ScratchPlugin" which
allows for things like presentation mode.  I'm not sure if we included the
binaries in the source package.

re: Readme - it would be great if you could write a new one to describe the
steps you took to install on your system. We'll post it on our Linux
Installer page and add it to the next release of the source package.

Amos
Scratch Team

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Kevin Somervill <ksomervi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hello,
> My son is going to be using scratch for school so I installed it on out
> Linux box.  The install was not exactly straight forward (using the
> scratch_1.4.0.tar.gz file), but I got it.  I would be willing to help
> convert this to autotools if you are interested, or at a minimum update the
> readme.  Also, how do I set up the help documentation? When I press help, it
> just beeps presumably because it doesn't know where to find it.  Where does
> scratch expect the help information to be or how do I tell it where it is?
>  Besides these issues, I think it's great.  And my children are enjoying it
> immensely.
>
> Thanks,
> ./ks
> --
> Kevin Somervill
>
> /*
>  * [...] Note that 120 sec is defined in the protocol as the maximum
>  * possible RTT.  I guess we'll have to use something other than TCP
>  * to talk to the University of Mars.
>  * PAWS allows us longer timeouts and large windows, so once implemented
>  * ftp to mars will work nicely.
>  */
> (from /usr/src/linux/net/inet/tcp.c, concerning RTT [retransmission
> timeout])
>
>


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Amos