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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.

Ubuntu-small.jpgHow 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:

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

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

How to install Sugar 0.87.2 on Ubuntu 10.40.4 LTS

  • supported by ubuntu until April 2013

To install Sugar 0.87.2 on Ubuntu 10.40:

  • click on Ubuntu Software Center,
  • search for Sugar,
  • click on sugar-emulator
  • click on Install.
  • click and install other required applications
  • To start Sugar,: Applications/Education/Sugar
Recommended:
  1. right click on sugar and add to desktop
  2. right click on XO Sugar Avatar on Desktop
  3. Properties: change command to sugar-emulator -f (full screen)

How to install Sugar 0.90.1 or 0.88 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.

  • Note: The Ubuntu Sugar Remix; sugar 0.88 and sugar 0.90 are offered but 0.90 is default install with sugar-emulator. Sugar emulator 0.88 is also available--Satellit 15:03, 4 March 2012 (EST)

To install Sugar 0.90.1 on Ubuntu 11.04:

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

Sugar will be downloaded and installed.

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