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Are you new to Sugar?

The quickest download is Sugar on a Stick. Basic instructions are found below:

Sugar on a Stick installation instructions

MS Windows

Prepare: Download the Fedora Live USB Creator from FedoraHosted. Download the latest Sugar on a Stick .iso file. Load: Insert a USB flash drive (or SD Card) with 2 GB or more of free space into your computer and launch Fedora Live USB Creator to create a Sugar-on-a-Stick bootable image. Note: Be sure to set the persistent storage slider to a non-zero value. Boot: Insert the USB stick into a USB port on your computer. Set the option to "boot from USB" in your computer's BIOS setup, and then start up the computer.

Detailed installation instructions for Windows and booting instructions are available. There is also a guide to exploring Sugar.

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GNU/Linux

Prepare: Use this script livecd-iso-to-disk to create a bootable image. (You may need to run chmod +x tools_livecd-iso-to-disk.sh after you download the script to make it executable.) You should have the isomd5sum package installed so that the script can verify the download. Download the latest Sugar on a Stick .iso file. Load: Insert a USB stick of 2 GB or greater capacity. Execute, as the root user, in the directory where you downloaded the script, in one command with arguments, the following: ./tools_livecd-iso-to-disk.sh --reset-mbr --overlay-size-mb 500 --home-size-mb 900 --delete-home --unencrypted-home /path/to/source.iso /dev/sd?1 where '?' in the final parameter represents the target bootable device node, such as sdb1 or sdc1, etc. and /path/to/source is the location and name of the .iso file. You can use the blkid or df command to get the device node name. Boot: Insert the USB stick into a USB port on your computer. Set the option to "boot from USB" in your computer's BIOS setup, and then start up the computer. You may create more Sugar Sticks on extra USB or SD devices from within a running Sugar on a Stick by running this command in the Terminal activity as root (doesn't work with alternative installation methods): /LiveOS/livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr --overlay-size-mb 300 --home-size-mb 175 --delete-home --unencrypted-home /dev/sr0 /dev/sd?1

Detailed installation instructions for GNU/Linux and booting instructions are available. There is also a guide to exploring Sugar. GNU/Linux users may also want to install the Sugar packages on their favorite distro, apart from Sugar on a Stick.

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Apple Mac OS X

DRAFT: These instructions are incomplete. Please help with testing and documentation. In the meantime, we recommend the Virtual Machines instructions below.

Prepare: These instructions are only for 64-bit processor machines. (To identify the processor type, choose Apple menu > About This Mac. A small window will appear titled About This Mac. The processor type is displayed in this window. Sugar on a Stick is for the Intel processor only.) Download the latest Sugar on a Stick .iso file. Be sure to download a 64-bit image. Load: Help: Does someone have a simple way to load a Live USB on a Mac? Here is a simple way to recognize a bootable USB on a Mac. Go to rEFIt (http://refit.sourceforge.net/) and make a bootable cd. There is no need to install rEFIt on your mac. In fact installing rEFIt may make it impossible to upgrade the Mac OS to a newer version later on (personal experience, I had to do a clean install). Put the rEFIt CD in and hold the option key after turning the computer on. The Mac will recognize the CD because it uses EFI and then the CD will recognize the bootable USB. How to Burn a rEFIt CD You can rename the .cdr file to .iso for use in GNU/Linux. Building and Booting a Live USB on a Mac Boot: Insert the USB stick into a USB port on your computer. Is this correct?: During the startup sound, press and hold the c key. If the Apple logo appears, Sugar is not booting. Restart and try again. the c key must be pressed during the startup sound and you must continue to hold it down. you may release the c key once the Sugar logo appears. Have a MacBook? Consider these options: MacBook Persistent SoaS v5 USB EFI Boot Bootable F15 Gnome3 CD on MacBook Pro Bootable DVD of F14 for MacBook Air Bootable CD of Trisquel 4.5 for MacBook Air See other installation variations at Sugar Creation Kit Burning a CD from an .iso file on a Mac Have an iBook or PowerPC Mac? See Community/Distributions/Ubuntu/PPC.

Alternative installation instructions for Mac OS X. Also, these older installation instructions and booting instructions may be consulted.
There is also a guide to exploring Sugar.

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Do you have an OLPC XO?

Upgrade to the latest olpc:Releases from OLPC. Upgrade to Dextrose Sugar 0.88 with Fedora 11 and GNOME (requires a developer key). Experiment with Updating XOs to the latest Sugar on a Stick release.

Some alternate installations

• Once you download, and then burn or load a Sugar on a Stick (SoaS) .iso file, and boot it, the running Fedora 16 SoaS Live CD/USB may be used to install Sugar to a hard disk or a 4 GB USB stick with the liveinst command.

- You start with a SoaS LiveOS image, and then load an uncompressed version onto the hard disk or USB stick.

- The Fedora-16-Live-SoaS.iso file is a 443 MB download.

• If you have a high-speed Internet connection,
  Fedora with the Sugar graphical learning environment may be installed to a hard disk or a a 4 GB USB stick with a Netinstall CD.

- Not a compressed LiveOS image like SoaS, but all of Sugar.

- This requires a high-speed Internet connection for software component downloading during installation.

Do you use GNU/Linux?

Select your favorite distribution Community/Distributions	Fedora Debian Trisquel Ubuntu Linux Mint Debian Mandriva Caixa Mágica openSUSE openSUSE Archlinux AltLinux Sweets To launch Sugar using the Sugar Package Management System
Or try a Live USB version of Sugar	, Pineapple with Sugar 0.94.1 and Fedora 16 (Verne) or, for brave pioneers, v7 beta with Sugar 0.95 and Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle) Trisquel TOAST

Are you a developer?

Learn how to get setup on the Supported systems page. Some additional references you may find useful: Sweets, to launch Sugar using the Sugar Package Management System jhbuild Gitorious source code repository Virtual machine or emulator image files Adding Sugar to your favorite distro...

Virtual Machines on all platforms

	VirtualBox Appliances
More Virtual Appliances	Sugar included in other GNU/Linux operating systems, and older versions. Also includes some VMware Player Appliances

If you run into problems, you may want to consult the Talk:VirtualBox page for help.

Are you preparing a deployment without Internet access?

See Sugar Creation Kit

Are you looking for Sugar Activities?

Visit the Sugar Activity Library