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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 Sweets on Ubuntu,
- switch to the Trisquel distribution,
- switch to some other distribution,
- use a virtual appliance,
- use the unstable version 0.90 of Sugar, using the Ubuntu repositories, or;
- install from Sugar source.
How to install a Sugar virtual appliance
This is covered in a section of the Sugar Creation Kit page:
How to install Sugar Desktop 0.90 on Ubuntu or Edubuntu 11.10
- Install the sucrose-0.90 package using Ubuntu Software Centre, or by command line:
sudo aptitude install sucrose-0.90
Only comes with Pippy and TurtleArt activities. 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