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==10/23/2011 announcement==
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This page is for discussion of [[Sweets Distribution]].
:sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org
 
 
 
:The Sweets Distribution is already mentioned on SL wiki, but it wasn't publicly announced. So, that's it
 
 
 
== Summary ==
 
 
 
:The major purposes for this distribution:
 
* If [[Platform_Team/Guide/Sweets_Usage#Sugar_via_Sweets|Sweets]] is
 
  more appropriate for personal usage, Sweets Distribution might be
 
  useful for Sugar distributors, e.g., special GNU/Linux distributions
 
  targeted on Sugar usage;
 
** Some times, it is mostly impossible to have recent Sugar release in
 
  not recent GNU/Linux distributions, e.g., LTS releases, and Sweets
 
  Distribution will be helpful in that case;
 
* Sweets Distribution is only about packaging
 
  [[Platform_Team/Guide/Sweets_Usage#Sugar_via_Sweets|Sugar sweets]],
 
  thus, it is zero-cost effort; the downside, it is impossible to add
 
  Sweets Distribution's packages to official repositories of GNU/Linux
 
  distributions.
 
:This is a special, only Sugar, distribution. The key points that make Sweets Distribution different to the rest of [[Community/Distributions|Distributions]] are:
 
 
 
* Sweets Distribution is formed as a 3rd party repository, i.e., it is not regular GNU/Linux distribution;
 
* It [[#Releases|supports]] several GNU/Linux distributions at the same time;
 
* Packages from these repositories do not interfere with the rest of the system, e.g., it is possible to use Sugar from Sweets Distribution and
 
:Sugar from official repositories at the same time.
 
 
 
== Content ==
 
 
 
Sweets Distribution contains only Glucose, Fructose and Sugar Platform
 
dependencies. The reason to not include more activities:
 
* people can install activities at any time,
 
* it is easy to support Sweets Distribution based Sugar distribution with including activities that are more appropriate for the current use case.
 
 
 
== Releases ==
 
 
 
:All releases are based on {{Code|dextrose/sugar}} sweet and contain pristine Glucose and [[Dextrose]] patches.
 
 
 
:The following list is a list of Sweets Distribution releases and
 
:GNU/Linux repositories they support. The list of supported GNU/Linux
 
:distributions is populated entirely on purpose, e.g., Ubuntu packages
 
:are being used in [[Community/Distributions/Trisquel|Trisquel]]. Please,
 
:[[Platform_Team/Sweets/Feedback|submit]] a request if you need more.
 
 
 
=== Sweets Distribution 0.88 ===
 
 
 
:Stable [[Dextrose/2|Dextrose 2]] based releases:
 
 
 
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/packages/SweetsDistribution:/0.88/Ubuntu-10.04/ Ubuntu-10.04]
 
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/packages/SweetsDistribution:/0.88/Ubuntu-10.10/ Ubuntu-10.10]
 
 
 
=== Sweets Distribution 0.94 ===
 
 
 
:Testing [[Dextrose/2|Dextrose 3]] based releases:
 
 
 
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/packages/SweetsDistribution:/0.94/Ubuntu-11.04/ Ubuntu-11.04]
 
 
 
== Installation ==
 
 
 
=== Ubuntu ===
 
 
 
:Import repository gpg key. For example for
 
:[http://download.sugarlabs.org/packages/SweetsDistribution:/0.94/Ubuntu-11.04/ Ubuntu-11.04]
 
:repository, type in a terminal:
 
 
 
curl http://download.sugarlabs.org/packages/SweetsDistribution:/0.94/Ubuntu-11.04/Release.key | sudo apt-key add -
 
 
 
:Refresh information about repositories:
 
 
 
sudo apt-get update
 
 
 
:Install full Sweets Distribution, i.e., Sugar Shell and Fructose
 
:activities:
 
 
 
sudo apt-get install sweets-distribution
 
 
 
Install only Sugar Shell:
 
 
 
sudo apt-get install sweets-sugar
 
 
 
== Usage ==
 
 
 
:To run Sugar in emulator mode, select ''Education/Sugar''
 
:application menu item or type in a terminal:
 
 
 
sweets-sugar-emulator
 
 
 
To login into Sugar session, choose ''Sweets Distribution'' session
 
type.
 
 
 
== Feedback ==
 
 
 
* [http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/newticket?component=sweets Submit] your bug report or feature request.
 

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