Ubuntu

Ubuntu and ubuntu-based distributions

• It is Recommended you use Trisquel for your Ubuntu install:

Ubuntu has not updated their repositories for sugar since version 0.90 when the [Ubuntu Sugar Remix Team] stopped work.

• See the sections below on Sweets_Distribution to see how to install 0.94.1 sugar on Ubuntu

Sugar Desktop 0.90 on Ubuntu 11.10

NOTE: This version uses previous Sugar release. Collaboration is broken

• Sugar 0.90 is NOT RECOMMENDED.
• Install sucrose-0.90

sudo apt-get install sucrose-0.90

Only comes with pippy and turtleart. You can download more Activities from [activites.sugarlabs.org ] from outside of Sugar and install each .xo bundle individually in a terminal with:

sugar-install-bundle activity.xo

To run Sugar fullscreen:

• Go to the menu Applications->Education->sugar
• Drag and drop the Sugar icon to the desktop
• Right-click on Sugar icon and choose Properties
• Change the command to:

 sugar-emulator -f

If you need to turn off screensaver and power management:

xset s off
xset -dpms

Sugar Desktop 0.90 on edubuntu 11.10

Sugar 0.90 is NOT RECOMMENDED

Note: classic gnome fallback is available on install

• Install sucrose-0.90

sudo apt-get install sucrose-0.90

Only comes with pippy and turtleart. To get more activities you can:

Download [the Surf activity ] and put it in a USB key. Within Sugar, copy the bundle to the Journal to install it. Start Surf and point it to [activites.sugarlabs.org ] to get other activities.

Or you can download from [activites.sugarlabs.org ] from outside Sugar and install each .xo bundle individually in a terminal with:

sugar-install-bundle activity.xo

To run Sugar fullscreen:

• menu Applications->Education->sugar
• drag and drop Sugar icon to desktop
• right-click on Sugar icon->Properties
• change command to:

 sugar-emulator -f

Trisquel

Ubuntu based and works well. Trisquel 4.1 is based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Trisquel 5, on Ubuntu 11.04.

• Trisquel is the reason that Sweets-Distribution exists.

alsroot developed it for this Ubuntu based distribution

Linux Mint

• Linux Mint 12 is based on Ubuntu 11.10

Mint web page

Sweets_Distribution

• This is alsroot's name for it.

Installs with sweets-distribution will work on Ubuntu also

• Links:http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit/sck/Advanced_Topics#Sweets_Distribution

Sweets Distribution is easier to use for Ubuntu' and its Derivatives (Adding an additional Repository to synaptic) as the packages are pre-configured, ready to use.)

(Advanced installation skills required.)

Has Dextrose features

Example Install

Sugar Desktop 0.94.1 on Mint 11 with sweets-distribution

Sweets

• This is alsroot's name for it.

(Very Advanced installation skills required.)

Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, openSUSE, and Gentoo

• Links:http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit/sck/Advanced_Topics#Sweets

For supported Distributions see: Supported_distributions

Ubuntu Sugar Remix Archive USR

http://people.sugarlabs.org/dfarning/USR-i386-20100208.iso

• Archive of discontinued project to add Sugar to Ubuntu