Debian
- Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. -- debian.org
In relation to Sugar, Debian is a downstream distribution project that can be used to run Sugar.
Using Sugar on Debian
There are no pre-built Debian images for Sugar. Sugar is available in Debian. To use Sugar in Debian:
- install Debian Jessie in the usual way, see debian.org,
- change /etc/apt/sources.list to use the Debian Stretch testing release,
sudo sed -i 's/jessie/stretch/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
- update the package lists,
sudo apt update
- install Sugar,
sudo apt install sucrose
- start a display manager or reboot,
sudo service gdm3 start
- log in with the Sugar desktop selected.
We use the testing Stretch release because Sugar is not in the current stable Jessie release, as it was not ready. But this has been fixed.
Testing Sugar on Debian
One Laptop per Child has been curating Sugar and Activities that can be used on Debian, and are in some cases more recent than the Debian Jessie stable release, or the Debian Stretch testing release. This will change over time, as package version numbers are kept below Debian versions so that Debian packages will be installed by preference.
How to add Sugar 0.106.0 to a Debian Jessie system:
- edit /etc/apt/sources.list to add the OLPC archive,
deb [trusted=yes] http://dev.laptop.org/pub/us stretch main
- update the package lists,
sudo apt update
- install Sugar,
sudo apt install olpc-activities
- log out of your default desktop, and then log in with the Sugar desktop selected.
Note: only amd64 architecture is supported. This removes the Abiword support for the Write activity on 32-bit systems.
Packaging
Packaging of Sugar on Debian is done by a team:
- pkg-sugar project,
- pkg-sugar-devel mailing list,
- pkg-sugar-commit mailing list,
- pkg-sugar git repositories,
- package archive of Jonas Smedegaard,
Sucrose packages are usually updated in the unstable release. These packages migrate to the testing release after a while. You can see the current package versions here.
Those interested in developing Sugar software should visit our developer documentation website.
Derivatives
Derivatives of Debian include:
See Also
- Sugar page on the Debian Wiki,
- the Debian Edu product Skolelinux