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Finding help

• Begin by reviewing the Navigation bar on the left. Each section with a triangle ▸ will expand ▾ to reveal common destinations.
• Open the section Sugar, follow the Get started link under Sugar, to study the page Getting Started.

  There you will find The Sugar Learners' manual, recommended reading for all!

  Plus you will find links to Tutorials, Videos and, importantly, current release notes.

Sugar Labs FAQ

- a compilation of the team FAQs

Viewing wiki categories

Many of the pages on this wiki are tagged at the bottom of the page with "Category:" or "Categories:". (A list of all the categories and the number of pages in each category is available at Categories.)

Have a look at this page, it has the tag Help. If you click on the tag, it will take you to an index of all other pages tagged Help.

You can see all the pages tagged 'FAQ' by following this link Category:FAQ - an index to all FAQ pages (with links for new questions).

Similarly, Category:Help shows pages tagged as 'Help', and Category:HowTo - pages tagged as 'HowTo'.

The Undiscoverable

We have tried hard to make it easy for children to discover what they can do with Sugar software without being told. But that isn't always possible. So we have a list of things that teachers should know about, and be able to demonstrate. If you find some feature of the software incomprehensible, please add it to the list, and we will see what we can do for you and everybody else who runs into the same problem. Sometimes the answer is a click of the mouse away, but not always. We are, after all, introducing children to all of human knowledge. They will inevitably need help with much of it. It took all of our ancestors many years to get this far, so it is alright if children spend a few years hitting the highlights, and getting help to do it.

OLPC Project Help and Information

For general help and information about the OLPC Project, please see these links at the The OLPC Wiki:

• Official OLPC FAQ,
• OLPC's Support FAQ, for questions about the XO laptop, its version of Sugar, and Activities.

  Much information is applicable to the current version of Sugar (e.g., using Activities).

• Support, for more support mechanisms,
• :Category:OLPC FAQ, and Ask OLPC a Question (in roughly that order).

Forums

Community Forums - on-line forums with lots of topics

The official OLPC community support forum, forum.laptop.org http://en.forum.laptop.org/

Fedora have an active forum http://www.fedoraforum.org/

Service

- an index to Sugar Labs infrastructure services

Sugar glossary

There is a glossary with commonly used acronyms available here.

Former help sites

These have a short history of problems, but the site is no longer preferred by Sugar Labs.

http://getsatisfaction.com/sugarlabs & http://launchpad.net/soas

The Sugar Learners' manual

view now:
	available as: or 128 pages, 8.3 MBytes (for saving or printing). The manual needs to be updated to include information regarding Sugar-on-a-Stick.

Tutorials

• Ideas for How to present Sugar.
• Tech Coordinator Guide and other training materials prepared by Teaching Matters(R) for OLPC in NYC
• Turtle Art tutorials by Tony Forster and Mokurai.
• Tutorials.iso - An off-line collection of .pdf copies of some of the tutorials on this wiki.

Annotated screenshot guides to Sugar

Click on the following links to go to wiki pages with annotated screenshots covering these topics.

Chatting with the Chat Activity

• Communicate with others on Sugar.
• A good example of collaboration on a shared Activity.

Chatting with the IRC Activity

• Communicate with developers and others with IRC.

Send file to friend

• Note: Requires a special version of Sugar.
• A nice way to sent a file to a friend.

Backup & restore Journal

• Backup & restore to an attached hard drive or USB device.
• Also works to save & retrieve individual files from the Sugar Journal that have been copied to a USB device.

Captura de pantalla comentadas en español

Haga clic en los siguientes enlaces para ir a las páginas wiki con capturas de pantalla comentadas que cubren estos temas.

Charlando con la Actividad Chat

• Comunicarse con los demás de Azúcar.
• Un buen ejemplo de la colaboración en una actividad compartida.

Charlando con la Actividad IRC

• Comunicarse con los desarrolladores y otras personas con IRC.

Copia con un simple arrastrar y soltar

• Fotos de exportación
• Importación / install <activity> archivo. XO

Installation

Install SoaS in VirtualBox

Old Anaconda up to Fedora 17

Installing and using liveusb-creator in Sugar

Make a bootable, persistent, Live USB device from a Fedora .iso file in SoaS.

* Windows: Create a SoaS v7 Live USB

Liveusb-creator in Microsoft Windows

Install SoaS in VMware Player

Old Anaconda up to Fedora 17

* Windows: Run SoaS with VMware Player

Install VMware Player in Microsoft Windows and run SoaS.

Fedora^®
Fedora and the Infinity design logo are trademarks of Red Hat, Inc.

Install_using Anaconda f18 RC1 DVDx86_64

newUI Anaconda

New version of the installer for Fedora 18

Testing Dextrose in VirtualBox

VirtualBox simulation of XO-1 software

Build_A_Fedora_Custom_Live_CD/DVD_Remix

• Build a Live CD/DVD .iso file with a customized kickstart file and livecd-tools in Fedora

How to Import a VirtualBox Appliance

• with links to Virtual Appliances to download.

Cómo importar un aparato de VirtualBox

• traducciones a través de http://translate.google.com/#auto%7Ces%7C Por favor, haga las correcciones por errores en la wiki.

Install from a booted Live CD/USB with liveinst

• The Fedora-16-Live-SoaS.iso file is a 443 MB download.
• Installs to a 4 GB USB stick or VirtualBox 4 GB hard drive. (The procedure is adaptable for installation to a regular hard drive.)

Instalar desde una calzada Live CD/USB con liveinst

• El archivo Fedora-16-en vivo-SoaS.iso es una descarga de 443 MB.

Anotado de fotografías en pantalla de una instalación

• Se instala a 4 GB de memoria USB o VirtualBox 4 GB de disco duro. (El procedimiento es adaptable para la instalación de un disco duro normal.)

Netinstall of Fedora with the Sugar Desktop Environment

• Note: Requires a high speed Internet connection!
• Install to a hard disk or USB device.

Install sugar-desktop in Fedora with anaconda-19.6

• Install of sugar 0.98.2 in VirtualBox

Testing of Anaconda anaconda-19.6-boot.iso

Videos

• Using the Journal
• Using View Source
• Turtle Art basics
• Turtle Art Portfolio basics
• XO Editor basics
• Waveplace Etoys video tutorials

More videos

• Creating a customized Memory game
• Hot-Cold game written in Turtle Art
• Installing a XO bundle in Sugar
• Installing InfoSlicer from Sugar Labs git repo
• Playing with OOo4Kids in Sugar
• Discovering the SocialCalc activity
• Discovering the Physics activity
• Introduction to Python in Sugar
• Overview of Sugar activity Read Etext
• Overview of the French Helpfr (Aide) activity for Sugar
• Turtle Art Continent Game
• Turtle Art State Game
• Gardner School Game
• Using the Physics Activity
• How to boot Sugar on a netbook
• Read Etexts: The Movie
• Reading With The Sugar Desktop
• Sugar on the OLPC in NZ

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