Ubuntu

Summary

You have an Ubuntu system and you wish to try Sugar?

Installation

As of 2012-02, Ubuntu does not have a stable version of Sugar in the Ubuntu repositories.

Until this is fixed, try one of these options:

use Sweets on Ubuntu, recommended for Ubuntu 11.04, see below,
use a virtual appliance, compatible with any version of Ubuntu, see below,
use the unstable version 0.90 of Sugar, from the Ubuntu repositories, compatible with any version of Ubuntu, see below, or
install from Sugar source.

How to install Sweets on Ubuntu

Install packages on an Ubuntu system so that you may run Sugar.

See How to install Sweets on Ubuntu.

How to install a virtual appliance

Install a virtual appliance based on Ubuntu:

the Ubuntu 11.04 Sweets Distribution Sugar 0.94 virtual appliance,
a tutorial on How to Import a virtual Appliance into VirtualBox.

There are other virtual appliances based on other distributions, which can be imported into virtualisation software on Ubuntu.

see Emulator image files.

How to install Sugar 0.88.1 on Ubuntu 11.10

supported by ubuntu until April 2012
Ubuntu has updated Software Center and now only 0.88.1 sugar is offered. Tested --Satellit 14:44, 4 March 2012 (EST)

There are many problems with Sugar on Ubuntu, many of which have been fixed in a later version, so we recommend the Sweets or virtual appliance methods instead. There is only firefox offered as a browser and it is not fully "sugarized" and will not install .xo files correctly as it cannot access the sugar-journal

To install Sugar 0.88.1 on Ubuntu 11.10:

click on Ubuntu Software Center,
search for Sugar,
click on sugar-emulator
click on Install.
click and install other required applications

Sugar will be downloaded and installed.

To start Sugar,: Applications/Education/Sugar

Recommended:

right click on sugar and add to desktop
right click on XO Sugar Avatar on Desktop
Properties: change command to sugar-emulator -f (full screen)

How to install Sugar 0.90 on Ubuntu 11.04

There are many problems with Sugar 0.90 on Ubuntu, many of which have been fixed in a later version, so we recommend the Sweets or virtual appliance methods instead.

To install Sugar 0.90 on Ubuntu 11.04:

click on Applications, then Ubuntu Software Centre,
search for Sugar,
click on Install.

Sugar will be downloaded and installed.

To start Sugar, click on Applications, then Education, then Sugar.