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Sugar on Caixa Mágica, the Magellan project

Linux Caixa Magica 15 (Portuguese) Main Page

Linux Caixa Magica 15 (English Translation) Main Page

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 01/22/2011

install in VB4 with .iso
Start Virtual Appliance
start symantic
reload
search task-sugar ( task-sugar 0.88.0-1mdv2010.1 Sugar Platform)
select; apply
log out
log in with (gdm) selected to sugar in bottom bar

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

Setup repositories on Caixa Mágica box

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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 == Sugar on Caixa Mágica, the Magellan project ==
 *'''[http://www.caixamagica.pt/pag/a_index.php Linux Caixa Magica 15 (Portuguese) Main Page]'''
+::[http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.caixamagica.pt%2Fpag%2Fa_index.php Linux Caixa Magica 15 (English Translation) Main Page]
 Magalhães is a Caixa Mágica based GNU/Linux distribution.