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Tested 04 March 2012

How to install Sugar 0.88.1 on Ubuntu 11.10

Ubuntu has updated Software Center and now only 0.88.1 sugar is offered. Tested --Satellit 14:44, 4 March 2012 (EST)

There are many problems with Sugar on Ubuntu, many of which have been fixed in a later version, so we recommend the Sweets or virtual appliance methods instead. There is only firefox offered as a browser and it is not fully "sugarized" and will not install .xo files correctly as it cannot access the sugar-journal

To install Sugar 0.88.1 on Ubuntu 11.10:

click on Ubuntu Software Center,
search for Sugar,
click on sugar-emulator
click on Install.
click and install other required applications

Sugar will be downloaded and installed.

To start Sugar,: Applications/Education/Sugar

Recommended:

right click on sugar and add to desktop
right click on XO Sugar Avatar on Desktop
Properties: change command to sugar-emulator -f (full screen)

How to install Sugar 0.87.2 on Ubuntu 10.40.4 LTS

To install Sugar 0.87.2 on Ubuntu 10.40:

click on Ubuntu Software Center,
search for Sugar,
click on sugar-emulator
click on Install.
click and install other required applications

To start Sugar,: Applications/Education/Sugar

Recommended:

right click on sugar and add to desktop
right click on XO Sugar Avatar on Desktop
Properties: change command to sugar-emulator -f (full screen)

How to install Sugar 0.90.1 or 0.88 on Ubuntu 11.04

There are many problems with Sugar 0.90 on Ubuntu, many of which have been fixed in a later version, so we recommend the Sweets or virtual appliance methods instead.

Note: The Ubuntu Sugar Remix; sugar 0.88 and sugar 0.90 are offered but 0.90 is default install with sugar-emulator. Sugar emulator 0.88 is also available--Satellit 15:03, 4 March 2012 (EST)

To install Sugar 0.90.1 on Ubuntu 11.04:

click on Applications, then Ubuntu Software Center,
search for Sugar,
click on Install.

Sugar will be downloaded and installed.

To start Sugar, click on Applications, then Education, then Sugar.

USB-Creator

http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4216/ Activity for Ubuntu only

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 ===How to install Sugar 0.88.1 on Ubuntu 11.10===
-*'''supported by ubuntu until April 2012'''
 *Ubuntu has updated Software Center and now only 0.88.1 sugar is offered. Tested --[[User:Satellit|Satellit]] 14:44, 4 March 2012 (EST)
 There are many problems with Sugar on Ubuntu, many of which have been fixed in a later version, so we recommend the [[#How_to_install_Sweets_on_Ubuntu|Sweets]] or [[#How_to_install_a_virtual_appliance|virtual appliance]] methods instead.
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 ===How to install Sugar 0.87.2 on Ubuntu 10.40.4 LTS===
-*'''supported by ubuntu until April 2013'''
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 ===How to install Sugar 0.90.1 or 0.88 on Ubuntu 11.04===
-*'''supported by Ubuntu until October 2012'''
 There are many problems with [[Community/Distributions/Ubuntu/0.90|Sugar 0.90 on Ubuntu]], many of which have been fixed in a later version, so we recommend the [[#How_to_install_Sweets_on_Ubuntu|Sweets]] or [[#How_to_install_a_virtual_appliance|virtual appliance]] methods instead.