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Sugar on Caixa Mágica, the Magellan project

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Magalhães is a Caixa Mágica based GNU/Linux distribution.

Download

caixamagica-linux-live-15-final-GNOME-int-cdrom-i586.iso Use this one
http://mirrors.nfsi.pt/caixamagica/

Installation

caixamagica-linux-live-15-final-GNOME-int-cdrom-i586 with sugar 0.88.0

caixamagica-linux-live-15-final-GNOME-int-cdrom-i586.iso Download this one

satellit updated this section 02/09/2011

install in VB4 with .iso
Select language English on boot screen before installing it.
If you are using VirtualBox clear the .iso from CD before starting virtual appliance.
Start Virtual Appliance
start symantic
reload
search task-sugar ( task-sugar 0.88.0-1mdv2010.1 Sugar Platform)
select; apply
Update: System/Administration/software-updater ( It may take a long time )
log out
log in with (gdm) selected to sugar in "sessions" on bottom bar OR
install sugar-emulator with Synaptic Package Manager (Search: sugar-emulator)

sugar-emulator 0.88.00mdv2010.1

Hint: place the Icon for sugar on the desktop: (Applications/Education/sugar)right mouse click: add this laucher to the desktop

then right mouse click on this icon/properties and add "-f" to command line: "/user/bin/sugar-emulator -f"

This will let sugar run FULL SCREEN.

to exit right mouse click on log out from central Avitar in f3 sugar pop up screen

Note: Caixa Magica Live USB Creator (xcm-liveusb-creator) Does not seem to work in VirtualBox4

Setup repositories on Caixa Mágica box

Note this is older information and not tested lately

satellit 02/09/2011

Get it:

wget -c http://mirrors.nfsi.pt/caixamagica/12/oficial/iso/caixamagica-linux-12-live-GNOME-pt_PT-cdrom-i586.iso

Create a disk image:

qemu-img create -f raw caixamagica.raw 3G

Install it:

kvm -m 512 -hda caixamagica.raw -cdrom caixamagica-linux-12-live-GNOME-pt_PT-cdrom-i586.iso -boot d

Boot, log in as root and add an user:

adduser sugar
password sugar

Add repositories:

urpmi.addmedia sugar http://people.sugarlabs.org/~alsroot/magalhaes
urpmi.addmedia main http://ftp.caixamagica.pt/12/oficial/i586/media/main/release
urpmi.addmedia main_update http://ftp.magalhaes.caixamagica.pt/12/oficial/i586/media/main/updates --update
urpmi.addmedia contrib http://ftp.caixamagica.pt/12/oficial/i586/media/contrib/release
urpmi.addmedia contrib_update http://ftp.magalhaes.caixamagica.pt/12/oficial/i586/media/contrib/updates --update

Setup repositories on Magalhães box

No root password available 01/22/2011 satellit

If you don't have installed Magalhães:

download VM image
untar it
start kvm with untared .vmdk file like with common kvm's disk image

Add repositories:

urpmi.addmedia sugar http://people.sugarlabs.org/~alsroot/magalhaes

Install sugar packages

To install core components (services, window manager, journal etc.) type:

sudo urpmi sugar-glucose

To install core activities type:

sudo urpmi sugar-fructose

Or to install the SugarPlatform(sugar-glucose + sugar-fructose + honey's deps):

sudo urpmi task-sugar

Packages

Sugar packages are being built by jhconvert and follow its matrix of package versions.

Releases:

0.84.x

Issues

Sugar repository includes some stuff that installed in /opt/sugar. When sugar doesn't start make sure that proper exports present(look at /usr/bin/sugar)

Contacts

Aleksey Lim
Tomeu Vizoso
Thomas Gilliard (Testing only)
be involved and add yourself here

Resources

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 ::''satellit updated this section 02/09/2011''
 # install in VB4 with .iso
+# Select language English on boot screen before installing it.
+# If you are using VirtualBox clear the .iso from CD before starting virtual appliance.
 # Start Virtual Appliance
 # start symantic
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 # search task-sugar      ( task-sugar 0.88.0-1mdv2010.1  Sugar Platform)
 # select; apply
+# Update: System/Administration/software-updater ( It may take a long time )
 # log out
-# log in with (gdm) selected to sugar in bottom bar
+# log in with (gdm) selected to sugar in "sessions" on bottom bar  OR
+# install sugar-emulator with Synaptic Package Manager (Search: sugar-emulator)
+: sugar-emulator  0.88.00mdv2010.1
+* Hint: place the Icon for sugar on the desktop: (Applications/Education/sugar)right mouse click: add this laucher to the desktop
+: then right mouse click on this icon/properties and add "-f" to command line: "/user/bin/sugar-emulator -f"
+: This will let sugar run FULL SCREEN.
+: to exit right mouse click on log out from central Avitar in f3 sugar pop up screen
 *Note: Caixa Magica Live USB Creator (xcm-liveusb-creator) Does not seem to work in VirtualBox4