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== Summary ==

The major purposes for this distribution:

* If [[Platform_Team/Guide/Sweets_Usage#Sugar_via_Sweets|Sweets]] is more appropriate for personal usage, Sweets Distribution might be useful for Sugar distributors, e.g., special GNU/Linux distributions targeted on Sugar usage;
** Some times, it is mostly impossible to have recent Sugar release in not recent GNU/Linux distributions, e.g., LTS releases, and Sweets Distribution will be helpful in that case;
* Sweets Distribution is only about packaging [[Platform_Team/Guide/Sweets_Usage#Sugar_via_Sweets|Sugar sweets]], thus, it is zero-cost effort; the downside, it is impossible to use Sweets Distribution's packages in official GNU/Linux distributions' repositories.

This is a special, only Sugar, distribution. The key points that make Sweets Distribution different to the rest of [[Community/Distributions|Distributions]] are:

* Sweets Distribution is formed as a 3rd party repository, i.e., it is not regular GNU/Linux distribution;
* It [[#Releases|supports]] several GNU/Linux distributions at the same time;
* Packages from these repositories do not interfere with the rest of the system, e.g., it is possible to use Sugar from Sweets Distribution and Sugar from official repositories at the same time.

== Content ==

Sweets Distribution contains only Glucose, Fructose and Sugar Platform dependencies. The reason to not include more activities:

* people can install activities at any time,
* it is easy to support Sweets Distribution based Sugar distribution with including activities that are more appropriate for the current use case.

== Releases ==

All releases are based on {{Code|dextrose/sugar}} sweet and contain pristine Glucose and [[Dextrose]] patches.

The following list is a list of Sweets Distribution releases and GNU/Linux repositories they support. The list of supported GNU/Linux distributions is populated entirely on purpose, e.g., Ubuntu packages are being used in [[Community/Distributions/Trisquel|Trisquel]]. Please, [[Platform_Team/Sweets/Feedback|submit]] a request if you need more.

=== Sweets Distribution 0.88 ===

* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/packages/SweetsDistribution:/0.88/Ubuntu-10.04/ Ubuntu-10.04]
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/packages/SweetsDistribution:/0.88/Ubuntu-10.10/ Ubuntu-10.10]

=== Sweets Distribution 0.94 ===

* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/packages/SweetsDistribution:/0.94/Ubuntu-11.04/ Ubuntu-11.04]

== Installation ==

=== Ubuntu ===

Import repository gpg key. For example for [http://download.sugarlabs.org/packages/SweetsDistribution:/0.94/Ubuntu-11.04/ Ubuntu-11.04] repository, type in a terminal:

curl http://download.sugarlabs.org/packages/SweetsDistribution:/0.94/Ubuntu-11.04/Release.key | sudo apt-key add -

Refresh information about repositories:

sudo apt-get update

Install full Sweets Distribution, i.e., Sugar Shell and Fructose activities:

sudo apt-get install sweets-distribution

Install only Sugar Shell:

sudo apt-get install sweets-sugar

== Usage ==

To run Sugar in emulator mode, select ''Education/Sugar'' application menu item or type in a terminal:

sweets-sugar-emulator

To login into Sugar session, choose ''Sweets Distribution'' session type.

== Feedback ==

{{:Platform_Team/Sweets/Feedback}}

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