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 0.105.3 (unstable) 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 sucrose-0.104 olpc-activities olpc-powerd- git- fakeroot- consolekit-
- 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
Debian Live
- Manual: http://live.debian.net/manual/current/index.en.html
- Download: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/
Point Linux
Point Linux is a GNU/Linux distribution that aims to combine the power of Debian GNU/Linux with the productivity of MATE, the Gnome 2 desktop environment fork.
Notes on install to USB disk
example:
dd if=debian-xxxxxxxx.iso of=/dev/sdX
Install Sugar via Synaptic
Install to HD Reboot start Synaptic Repositories select all 3 select Server for USA click all 3 boxes Third Party Software http://...... reload search for "sugar" click on all 0.88 sugar packages apply how to configure full screen Browse Activities (Download the activities you want)
Fixing dependencies in Wheezy
This article describes the process to compile Sugar on Debian testing Wheezy, in order to install sugar-jhbuild.
http://humitos.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/compile-sugar-on-debian-testing-wheezy
GTK3 in Debian Wheezy
(From http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg26211.html)
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 17:45, Manuel Kaufmann <humitos@gmail.com> wrote: > Do you have a clue about this?
This was my workaround to this problem:
1. /etc/apt/sources.list
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
2. update the package database
sudo apt-get update
3. download the source code
cd /tmp mkdir pygobject apt-get source python-gi
4. install dependencies
sudo apt-get build-dep python-gi sudo apt-get install python-gobject-2-dbg
5. compile python-gi
cd pygobject-3.2.0 wget -c http://mkaufmann.com.ar/~humitos/olpc/pygi-d37680bb9390426f7f58ea3d352c3e5e2106e978_modified.patch git apply pygi-d37680bb9390426f7f58ea3d352c3e5e2106e978_modified.patch dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b
6. install compiled packages
sudo dpkg -i ../*.deb
Now, when I run "./sugar-jhbuild run sugar-emulator" I can see the icons and the toolbar properly.
Testing
Where Debian is installed via the Debian installer or virtual machine, Sugar has been reported to run nicely.
- Sugar 0.88.0 works nicely in Debian squeeze.
Low footprint versions (eg no Gnome Display Manager) with SLiM and Openbox only, are reported in this link to cause a problem.