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Revision as of 00:06, 28 February 2012
Summary
You have an Ubuntu system and you wish to try Sugar?
As of 2012-02, Ubuntu does not have a stable version of Sugar in the Ubuntu repositories. Until this is fixed, your choices are:
- use the unstable version 0.90 of Sugar, using the Ubuntu repositories,
- use Sweets on Ubuntu,
- switch to the Trisquel distribution,
- switch to some other distribution,
- use a virtual appliance, or;
- install from Sugar source.
Introduction
We provide two kinds of information in this page.
- Existing Ubuntu-based Sugar Spins. A Sugar Spin is a Linux distribution which uses Sugar as its default desktop environment.
- How to install Sugar for your Ubuntu desktop. It is dependent on your Ubuntu's release version and the Sugar version you are going to install.
Ubuntu-based Sugar Spins
Ubuntu Sugar Remix
- Ubuntu has not updated their repositories for sugar since version 0.90 when the Ubuntu Sugar Remix Team stopped work.
- http://people.sugarlabs.org/dfarning/
- Archive of discontinued project to add Sugar to Ubuntu
- These do not work very well. Not Recommended
VirtualBox Appliance to import
- This is exactly the same as achieved with the Installation Suggestions above
Sugar Desktop 0.90 on Ubuntu 11.10
NOTE: This version uses previous Sugar release. Collaboration is broken
- Sugar 0.90 is NOT RECOMMENDED.
- Install sucrose-0.90
sudo apt-get install sucrose-0.90
Only comes with pippy and turtleart. You can download more Activities from [activites.sugarlabs.org ] from outside of Sugar and install each .xo bundle individually in a terminal with:
sugar-install-bundle activity.xo
To run Sugar fullscreen:
- Go to the menu Applications->Education->sugar
- Drag and drop the Sugar icon to the desktop
- Right-click on Sugar icon and choose Properties
- Change the command to:
sugar-emulator -f
If you need to turn off screensaver and power management:
xset s off xset -dpms
Sugar Desktop 0.90 on edubuntu 11.10
Sugar 0.90 is NOT RECOMMENDED
Note: classic gnome fallback is available on install
- Install sucrose-0.90
sudo apt-get install sucrose-0.90
Only comes with pippy and turtleart. To get more activities you can:
Download [the Surf activity ] and put it in a USB key. Within Sugar, copy the bundle to the Journal to install it. Start Surf and point it to [activites.sugarlabs.org ] to get other activities.
Or you can download from [activites.sugarlabs.org ] from outside Sugar and install each .xo bundle individually in a terminal with:
sugar-install-bundle activity.xo
To run Sugar fullscreen:
- menu Applications->Education->sugar
- drag and drop Sugar icon to desktop
- right-click on Sugar icon->Properties
- change command to:
sugar-emulator -f