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<noinclude>[[Category:Supported systems]]</noinclude>
 
<noinclude>[[Category:Supported systems]]</noinclude>
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{{Merge|Community/Distributions|discuss=Talk:Supported distributions#Merge page}}
 
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{{Note/note|Please note:| Development changes occur rapidly, and the documentation here lags the current state of systems development.  For the latest information on any development project, visit their work sites.}}
 
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See [[Sugar System Stack]] for a picture of the software stack.
 
 
=== Ways to run Sugar ===
 
=== Ways to run Sugar ===
 
Determine which of the various methods of running Sugar meet your needs:
 
Determine which of the various methods of running Sugar meet your needs:
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* '''Pre-installed Sugar'''
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* '''Run Sugar pre-installed in a computer'''
 
*: Some computers come with Sugar pre-installed, most notably the [[olpc:Hardware|OLPC XO laptops]].
 
*: Some computers come with Sugar pre-installed, most notably the [[olpc:Hardware|OLPC XO laptops]].
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* '''Live CD / Live USB'''
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*: Some deployments use the [https://sugardextrose.org/ Dextrose] distribution of Sugar.
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* '''Boot a Live CD / Live USB pre-installed with Sugar'''
 
*: Suitable for trying Sugar without having to install any software on almost any computer&mdash;just boot Sugar off of a CD or USB drive. '''Note:''' When booting a Live CD, the Journal is not automatically saved on shutdown, because the boot media is readonly. All changes are lost upon shutdown or reboot. This is not a limitation for Live USB installations.  See our [[Sugar on a Stick]] project page or other [[:Category:Live USB|Live USB projects]].
 
*: Suitable for trying Sugar without having to install any software on almost any computer&mdash;just boot Sugar off of a CD or USB drive. '''Note:''' When booting a Live CD, the Journal is not automatically saved on shutdown, because the boot media is readonly. All changes are lost upon shutdown or reboot. This is not a limitation for Live USB installations.  See our [[Sugar on a Stick]] project page or other [[:Category:Live USB|Live USB projects]].
 
* '''Install Sugar'''
 
* '''Install Sugar'''
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*: If you are running one of the currently supported distributions, you can install Sugar using your systems standard package manager, e.g., Synaptic, apt-get, or yum. See [[Community/Distributions/Fedora#The_Sugar_Learning_Environment_is_packaged_in_Fedora_17.|these instructions]].
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*: If you are running one of the currently supported distributions, you can install Sugar using your systems standard package manager, e.g., Synaptic, apt-get, or yum. See [[Fedora#Sugar_Learning_Environment|these instructions]].
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* '''Emulator/Virtualizer'''
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*: The [[Harmonic Distribution]] of the Sugar Learning Platform may also appeal to you.
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* '''Install an emulator or virtualizer and launch a bootable Sugar disk image file'''
 
*: [[QEMU]], [[VirtualBox]], or [[VMware]] let you run Sugar in an emulator or by virtualization on your computer&mdash;you'll need to install an emulator from which you launch Sugar and one of the [[Emulator image files]].
 
*: [[QEMU]], [[VirtualBox]], or [[VMware]] let you run Sugar in an emulator or by virtualization on your computer&mdash;you'll need to install an emulator from which you launch Sugar and one of the [[Emulator image files]].
  
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* As a [[#Starch|complete disk image]] on an existing machine;
 
* As a [[#Starch|complete disk image]] on an existing machine;
 
* As a [[#Sucrose|session]] on a Linux system; or
 
* As a [[#Sucrose|session]] on a Linux system; or
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* As part of a [[#Systems|complete hardware-software platform]].
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* As part of a complete hardware-software platform.
  
 
===[[/Technical considerations | Technical considerations]]===
 
===[[/Technical considerations | Technical considerations]]===
 
: A discussion of '''technical considerations''' regarding supported systems.
 
: A discussion of '''technical considerations''' regarding supported systems.
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===Starch===
 
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[[Image:Sugar-on-CD-USB.jpg]]
 
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[[Taxonomy#Starch.28es.29:_A_complete_disk_image_for_Sugar|Starch]] is a complete disk image for Sugar.
 
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===Sucrose===
 
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[[Taxonomy#Sucrose:_The_interface.2C_plus_a_set_of_demonstration_activities|Sucrose]] is the Sugar interface plus a set of demonstration activities.  System maintainers should visit the [[Packaging Team]] page.
 
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===Sugar for various hardware systems===
 
===Sugar for various hardware systems===
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Since Sugar is now available on most major GNU/Linux distributions, it is possible to run Sugar almost any computer that can run GNU/Linux. We highlight some systems below. Please add your favorite to the list.
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* [[OLPC|OLPC XO laptops]]
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* [[Macintosh]]
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*: Intel processor
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MacBook Air
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*:* [[Sugar on a Stick/Macintosh]], [[Testing/Reports/Sugar on a Stick#MacBook_Persistent_SoaS_v5_and_SoaS_v6_EFI_Boot_USB|another example]]
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OSX 10.6.6  (Virtualbox 4.0.2)[[Emulator_image_files#VirtualBox]] VirtualBox runs on most hardware and OS's
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*:* [[VirtualBox#on_Mac_OS_X|VirtualBox on Mac OS X]]
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Works well in VirtualBox including wireless and magic mouse
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*: PowerPC processor
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Burned Soas.iso for Soas-v4 and Soas-v3 boot fine
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*:* [[Fedora#PowerPC]]
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[[Downloads#Apple_Mac_OS_X Apple Mac OS X]]<br>[[Sugar on a Stick/Mac]]
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*:* [[Ubuntu/PPC]]
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== Getting the Sugar sources ==
 
== Getting the Sugar sources ==
 
Distributors can find the latest sources for the sucrose components [[Development Team/Release/Modules|here]]. Each [[{{Current Stable Release}}| release page]] has as links to the release pages of earlier releases.
 
Distributors can find the latest sources for the sucrose components [[Development Team/Release/Modules|here]]. Each [[{{Current Stable Release}}| release page]] has as links to the release pages of earlier releases.
  
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==Updating Sugar to the Latest Version==
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==Updating Sugar to the latest version==
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=== XO laptops ===
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[[File:Ubuntu.jpg|link=Community/Distributions/Ubuntu]]
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* [[OLPC:Releases]]
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* [https://sugardextrose.org/ Dextrose development site] - [[Dextrose]]
  
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===Ubuntu===
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==Looking at Sugar variants==
  
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'''[[Community/Distributions/Ubuntu]]'''
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See [[Sugar System Stack]] for a picture of the software stack.
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: UbuntuSugarRemix and 10.04LTS
 
  
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'''https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sugar'''
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===Starch===
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: UbuntuSugarRemix
 
  
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The Sugar packages in
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[[Image:Sugar-on-CD-USB.jpg]]
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Ubuntu 9.04 and 8.10 [[Community/Distributions/Ubuntu#Using_sugar_PPAs]].
 
  
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For a LiveCD/LiveUSB, check out the instructions [http://dev.laptop.org/~probono/sbuntu/].'''(Note that this produces a very old sugar version 0.82.1)'''
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[[Taxonomy#Starch.28es.29:_A_complete_disk_image_for_Sugar|Starch]] is a complete disk image for Sugar.
  
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Updated sucrose packages are usually published in a PPA: See [[Community/Distributions/Ubuntu#Sugar_on_Ubuntu_8.04|here]] for details.
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===Sucrose===
  
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If you want up-to-the-minute freshness (and brokenness) you can use [[Development Team/Jhbuild|jhbuild]] to build from source instead of the released packages. Follow the instructions [[Development Team/Jhbuild#Creating_an_xsession_for_Sugar-jhbuild|here]] to install sugar-jhbuild as an xsession option.
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[[Taxonomy#Sucrose:_The_interface.2C_plus_a_set_of_demonstration_activities|Sucrose]] is the Sugar interface plus a set of demonstration activities.  System maintainers should visit the [[Packaging Team]] page.
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[[File:Debian.jpg|link=Community/Distributions/Debian]]
 
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===Debian===
 
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[[Community/Distributions/Debian]]
 
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*sugar 0.88.0 works nicely in Debian squeeze
 
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Sucrose packages are usually updated in unstable. These packages migrate to testing after a while. You can see the current package versions [http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=sugar&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all here].
 
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If you want up-to-the-minute freshness (and brokenness) you can use [[Development Team/Jhbuild|jhbuild]] to build from source instead of the released packages.
 
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[[File:Fedora.jpg|link=Community/Distributions/Fedora]]
 
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===Fedora===
 
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==== Fedora LiveCD/Live USB ====
 
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:Project page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sugar (superseding: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sugar_Spin)
 
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With this spin, you'll be able to run Sugar, which is developed by Sugarlabs and the desktop environment used on the OLPC, directly from a Live CD! You'll find several activities on the image including most notably...
 
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* sugar-browse - a web browsing activity based on xulrunner
 
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* sugar-write - a word processor based on abiword
 
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...along with several other activities including Chat support.
 
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:See our [[Sugar_on_a_Stick | Sugar on a Stick page]].
 
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The Fedora OLPC SIG, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OLPC, will be importing further activities into Fedora, which might be installed using ''yum install sugar-*'' at a later time.
 
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:Recent development spins:
 
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::http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/1/
 
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For more information, please refer to the announcement here:
 
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https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-olpc-list/2008-December/msg00061.html
 
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Fedora 11 Preview contains USB Creator which can make USB and SD's with persistence of Fedora F11 (and Sugar if added with Synaptic) and Soas-beta's [satellit 04/30/2009]
 
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What if you wanted to put it quickly onto your USB Key? You'll just need to grab Luke Macken's liveusb-creator, which already includes support for the Sugar Spin. Here's the link:
 
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:http://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/
 
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The liveusb-creator still contains an old link, which is the reason why you'll need to download the spin manually until this gets fixed.
 
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'''Tip of the hat:''' Sebastian Dziallas and the Fedora team
 
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==== Fedora on an OLPC XO ====
 
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On an OLPC XO-1 laptop, run olpc-update as root.
 
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# sudo olpc-update 767
 
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'''Note:''' Now you can do this by means of the graphical [[olpc:Sugar Control Panel|Sugar Control Panel]].
 
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===OLPC Clean Install===
 
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http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Clean-install_procedure
 
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====Joyride====
 
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See [[OLPC:Future releases]], the Joyride train is in the round house.
 
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<big><font color=red>Joyride is for developers; it is not supported. Joyride builds may cause data corruption and in rare cases, even cause hardware damage, so please do not use Joyride on mission-critical systems.</font></big>
 
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Joyride contains all the "bleeding-edge" features that are being debugged for inclusion in the next release.
 
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Open the Terminal application and type the following, substituting 2469 for the latest version number.
 
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# olpc-update joyride-2469
 
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'''What's the latest version?''' You can find the latest build number (shown above as 1779) at the bottom of http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/xo-1/streams/joyride/
 
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Updates usually takes 10–15 minutes. It's advised that you plug your XO in while Sugar updates itself, then reboot it to see the new OS take effect.
 
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==== Other Options ====
 
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These are options that can be used with the update command:
 
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# olpc-update --help
 
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<pre><nowiki>
 
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Usage:
 
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olpc-update [options] --hints hints-file
 
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olpc-update [options] [-rf] build-number
 
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olpc-update [options] [-rf] --usb
 
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olpc-update --version
 
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olpc-update --help
 
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olpc-update 630
 
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olpc-update joyride-1779
 
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olpc-update update.1-700
 
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  -h, --help    show this help message and exit
 
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  -f, --full    skip incremental update attempt.
 
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  --force      force update to an unsigned build.
 
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  -r, --reboot  reboot after a successful update.
 
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  --hints=FILE  name of json-encoded hints dictionary identifying the desired
 
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                new version.
 
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  -u, --usb    upgrade from new build on inserted USB stick.
 
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  -v            display verbose progress information; repeat for more verbose
 
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                output.
 
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  -q, --quiet  don't output anything; use exit status to indicate success.
 
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  --version    display version and license information.
 
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</nowiki></pre>
 
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[[File:Gentoo-logo-small.jpg|link=Community/Distributions/Gentoo]]
 
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==== Fedora on the XO-1 ====
 
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One of the updated  ways of installing sugar on the XO can be seen here.
 
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http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_XO-1
 
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==== SOAS on the XO ====
 
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You can also install sugar on a stick on the XO-1
 
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* [[Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation/OLPC]]
 
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===Gentoo===
 
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* There are two methods to get Sugar on your Gentoo box: [[Community/Distributions/Gentoo#sugar-jhbuild|sugar-jhbuild]] and [[Community/Distributions/Gentoo#Sugar overlay|Sugar overlay]]. '''See''' [[Community/Distributions/Gentoo|Gentoo]] for details.
 
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<span class="linkgroup">
 
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[[File:Alt_linux_team_tiny.png|link=Community/Distributions/ALTLinux]]
 
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</span>
 
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===ALT Linux===
 
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* ALT Linux Team is an international software developers team, collectively working on [http://en.altlinux.org/Sisyphus Sisyphus].
 
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*'''To install''' Sugar try these [[Community/Distributions/ALTLinux#Setup|packages]].
 
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[[File:Mandriva.png|link=Community/Distributions/Mandriva]]
 
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</span>
 
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===Mandriva===
 
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To install Sugar on Mandriva follow these [[Community/Distributions/Mandriva#Setup|instructions]].
 
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--->
 
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== Distributions Index ==
 
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This is the index of [[Community/Distributions]] and it lists the pages on GNU/Linux distributions, where Sugar is supported.
 
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{{Special:PrefixIndex/Community/Distributions/}}
 

Latest revision as of 02:35, 27 July 2012

Ways to run Sugar

Determine which of the various methods of running Sugar meet your needs:

  • Run Sugar pre-installed in a computer
    Some computers come with Sugar pre-installed, most notably the OLPC XO laptops.
    Some deployments use the Dextrose distribution of Sugar.
  • Boot a Live CD / Live USB pre-installed with Sugar
    Suitable for trying Sugar without having to install any software on almost any computer—just boot Sugar off of a CD or USB drive. Note: When booting a Live CD, the Journal is not automatically saved on shutdown, because the boot media is readonly. All changes are lost upon shutdown or reboot. This is not a limitation for Live USB installations. See our Sugar on a Stick project page or other Live USB projects.
  • Install Sugar
    If you are running one of the currently supported distributions, you can install Sugar using your systems standard package manager, e.g., Synaptic, apt-get, or yum. See these instructions.
    The Harmonic Distribution of the Sugar Learning Platform may also appeal to you.
  • Install an emulator or virtualizer and launch a bootable Sugar disk image file
    QEMU, VirtualBox, or VMware let you run Sugar in an emulator or by virtualization on your computer—you'll need to install an emulator from which you launch Sugar and one of the Emulator image files.

Supported distributions

Sugar is supported by several GNU/Linux distributions. Sugar Labs does not support any specific distribution, but does focus development on Fedora and Debian, which helps SoaS and Ubuntu.

Logo Name Notes
Soas-avocado.svg Sugar on a Stick Live system of the Sugar Learning Environment
Fedora-small.jpg Fedora Fedora 34
Ubuntu-small.jpg Ubuntu Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic
Debian-small.jpg Debian Debian Stretch, see also Live Build
Olpc logo.png OLPC OS 16.04 OLPC OS for OLPC NL3 laptops based on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial
Olpc logo.png OLPC OS 13.x OLPC OS for OLPC XO laptops based on Fedora 18
Suse-small.jpg openSUSE Part of an Linux for Education (Li-f-e) series
Trisquel icon.png Trisquel Toast Based on Ubuntu
35px-Activity-write.png
Please note:
  • Development changes occur rapidly, and the text here lags the current state of systems development.
  • For the latest information on any development project, visit their work sites.

Matrix of Sugar solutions

There are many ways to run Sugar:

  • As a complete disk image on an existing machine;
  • As a session on a Linux system; or
  • As part of a complete hardware-software platform.

Technical considerations

A discussion of technical considerations regarding supported systems.

Sugar for various hardware systems

Getting the Sugar sources

Distributors can find the latest sources for the sucrose components here. Each release page has as links to the release pages of earlier releases.

Updating Sugar to the latest version

XO laptops

Looking at Sugar variants

See Sugar System Stack for a picture of the software stack.

Starch

Sugar-on-CD-USB.jpg

Starch is a complete disk image for Sugar.

Sucrose

Sucrose is the Sugar interface plus a set of demonstration activities. System maintainers should visit the Packaging Team page.

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