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+= Sugar on Debian =
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-= Sugar on Debian =
+The Sugar packages for Debian provide a Sugar environment that is easy to install and can be configured as an X session in gdm or run in a window with sugar-emulator.
+It is a much simpler platform to set up for activity developers than jhbuild, although is not bleeding-edge.
+Sugar on Debian is packaged and maintained by the [http://alioth.debian.org/projects/debian-olpc/ Alioth OLPC team], who welcome new contributors to test, document, triage, and make packages.
+__TOC__
+== Sugar on Debian unstable (Sid) ==
+Sid, the never-released development branch of Debian, currently contains Sucrose 0.82 packages.
+Installation instructions:
+ sudo aptitude --with-recommends install sugar
+Run sugar in a window under another desktop (GNOME, KDE, XFCE etc.):
+ sugar-emulator
+Logfiles and other data is stored below ~/.sugar
+You can start sugar using an alternative profile (e.g. to run multiple virtual Sugar environments concurrently) with the following command instead:
+ SUGAR_PROFILE=another_profile sugar-emulator
+If you need verbose log files for debugging, use the following command instead:
+ SUGAR_LOGGER_LEVEL=debug PRESENCESERVICE_DEBUG=1 sugar-emulator
+If everything is working fine, you can log into Sugar from the gdm login screen instead of running sugar-emulator.
+== Sugar on Debian 5.0 (Lenny) ==
+=== Sucrose 0.81 ===
+'''Old, but included in Lenny'''
+In summer 2008 when Debian Lenny went into "freeze" (finalizing stage where only bugfixes are allowed), only packages from 0.81.x was packaged officially.
+We do recommend using the version 0.82 packages instead, as mentioned below:
+=== Sucrose 0.82 ===
+'''Up-to-date version, unofficial repository'''
-Simplest is to use officially packaged Sugar packages:
+All packages released officially to the Debian development branch as mentioned above, has been carefully backported to Lenny by same developers, and made available outside of official Debian infrastructure.
+Installation instructions:
+ sudo -s
+ echo deb http://debian.jones.dk/ lenny sugar > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sugar.list
+ aptitude update
+ aptitude upgrade
   aptitude --with-recommends install sugar
+(above works for i386 and amd64 platforms - please post to debian-olpc-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org if other architectures are wanted)
 == Resources ==
 * http://wiki.debian.org/Sugar
+* http://alioth.debian.org/projects/debian-olpc/
-This method now works in Debian Testing as of May 22, 2008 ([http://lists.lo-res.org/pipermail/its.an.education.project/2008-May/000691.html IAEP: Core Sugar framework now in Debian Testing!])
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