Get sugar

There are two ways to use Sugar on your own computer. SOAS (Sugar on a Stick) is a USB flash drive with Sugar which can be booted on your computer but does not change anything on your hard drive. The second way is to free some space on your hard drive and install a distribution of GNU/Linux which supports Sugar. The method allows you to choose your normal operating system or GNU/Linux with Sugar during boot.

Sugar on a Stick

MS Windows

Download the latest Sugar on a Stick .iso file. Load: Insert a USB flash drive (or SD Card) with 2 GB or more of free space into your computer and launch Rufus to create a Sugar-on-a-Stick bootable image. Boot: Insert the USB stick into a USB port on your computer. Set the option to "boot from USB" in your computer's BIOS setup, and then start up the computer.

GNU/Linux

Download the latest Sugar on a Stick .iso file. Load: Here is a simple way to create a SOAS usb flash drive. Open a shell (command line interpreter) Type df -Th. This shows all of the mounted partitions (on your computer's hard drive.) Insert a USB flash drive (or SD Card) with 2 GB or more of free space into your computer After a few moment type df -Th again. You should see an added line for your USB drive. Check the size of the drive (e.g. 3.7GB for a 4GB drive) and its type: vfat to confirm this line refers to your usb flash drive. The first field on this line, e.g. /dev/sdb1, identifies the partition. For dd command, you will use /dev/sdb [this field without the partition number]. type cd ~/Downloads. Then type ls Fedora*.iso Assuming you downloaded to the Downloads folder, this will show the SOAS iso. Type sudo dd if=Fedora-SoaS-Live-x86_64-25-1.3.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1M with the correct if (input file) and of (output device). The dd command erases the 'of' device so make sure it doesn't say /dev/sda which would erase your computer's hard drive!!! Also make sure you have saved any valuable information on the usb flash drive. Boot: Insert the USB stick into a bootable USB port on your computer. Set the option to "boot from USB" in your computer's BIOS setup, and then start up the computer.

Apple Mac OS X

Download the latest Sugar on a Stick .iso file. Load: Here is a simple way to load a bootable USB on a Mac. Enter the Terminal: /Applications/Utilities/Terminal. Type diskutil list. You should see all the disk drives you have inserted into your computer. Insert the disk drive to which you want to write Sugar on a Stick. Type diskutil list again. You should see that your USB drive has been added to the list. If not, wait a while and repeat. Type hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o <Sugar on a Stick image file>.img <Sugar on a Stick image file> to convert the image into a bootable format. Type sudo diskutil unmountDisk <device name> to unmount the disk (it will not be ejected). Type sudo dd if=<Sugar on a Stick image file>.img.dmg of=<device name> bs=1m. sudo will ask for your password, and then dd will start writing the disk file. When dd finishes writing the disk file, type sudo diskutil eject <device name>. Boot: Insert the USB stick into a USB port on your computer, then reboot and press and hold the Option key while rebooting. You should see a list of all the EFI-recognizable USB drives that can be bootstrapped. If Sugar on a Stick is not one such drive, it cannot be bootstrapped: you need rEFInd (a fork of rEFIt).

Do you have an OLPC XO?

Upgrade to the latest olpc:Releases from OLPC (which may require a developer key). Experiment with Updating XOs to the latest Sugar on a Stick release.

Some alternate installations

• Once you download, and then burn or load a Sugar on a Stick (SoaS) .iso file, and boot it, the running Fedora 17 SoaS Live CD/USB may be used to install Fedora with Sugar to a hard disk or a 4 GB USB stick with the liveinst command.

- You start with a SoaS LiveOS image, and then load an uncompressed version onto the hard disk or USB stick.

- The Fedora-17-Live-SoaS.iso file is a 509 MB download.

• If you have a high-speed Internet connection,
  Fedora with the Sugar graphical learning environment may be installed to a hard disk or a a 4 GB USB stick with a Netinstall CD.

- Not a compressed LiveOS image like SoaS, but all of Sugar.

- This requires a high-speed Internet connection for software component downloading during installation.

Do you use GNU/Linux?

See these links to pages on the Sugar Labs wiki for GNU/Linux distributions where Sugar has been installed.

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.
• The 'Notes' column should indicate if the image is for pre-release testing.

Logo	Name	Latest Sugar	Notes
	Ubuntu	0.110	Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty
	Debian	0.110	Debian Stretch
	Debian on rpi3	0.110	Debian jessie
	OLPC	0.110	Prepared for XO laptops
	Ubuntu on rpi3	0.110	Ubuntu 17.04 (sugar on rpi3)
	Fedora	0.108.1	Primary distribution for Sugar (Fedora 25)
	Sugar on a Stick	0.108.1	Live CD/USB of the Sugar Learning Environment
	openSUSE	0.107.2	Part of the Linux for Education (Li-f-e) series
	Trisquel Toast	0.102.0	Based on Ubuntu
	Mageia	0.95.1	Forked from Mandriva
	ElementaryOs	0.94.1	Based on Ubuntu 10.10 & Sweets Distribution
	Fusion Linux	0.94.1	Remix of Fedora 16 with GNOME 3.2.1
	Linux Mint	0.94.1	mint 13 & mint 14 Using Sweets Distribution
	Dextrose	0.92.4	Prepared for XO laptops
	Linux Mint Debian Edition	0.88.1
	Mandriva	0.88.0