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====Setting up a Sugar environment====
====Setting up a Sugar environment====
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If you use Linux, your best bet is to install [[Development Team/Jhbuild|sugar-jhbuild]]. You will be able to develop in your native environment, treating Sugar as just another desktop application.
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If you run MacOS X or Windows, you will need to set up an emulator. For setup instructions and links to pre-configured virtual machines, see [[VirtualBox]].
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Please see [[Downloads | Get Sugar]] for details on how to best get Sugar running.
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To develop efficiently using an emulator or a secondary machine (such as an OLPC XO), find an editor which supports editing files over a SFTP connection. [http://www.openkomodo.com/ Komodo Edit] with the Remote Drive Tree extension is a good example.
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If you decide to use a Virtual Machine (VM) or a secondary machine (such as an OLPC XO) for testing your activities, an editor with support for editing files over an SFTP connection can come in handy. [http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit/downloads Komodo Edit] with the Remote Drive Tree extension and [http://www.eclipse.org Eclipse] with the [http://www.jcraft.com/eclipse-sftp/ SFTP Plugin] are examples.