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| {{Note/warning|Warning: Outdated Information|This page has not been updated in a long time. The links on this page, '''[[Community/Distributions]]''', are probably more current.}}
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| {{Note/note|Please note:| Development changes occur rapidly, and the documentation here lags the current state of systems development. For the latest information on any development project, visit their work sites.}}
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| See [[Sugar System Stack]] for a picture of the software stack.
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| === Ways to run Sugar === | | === Ways to run Sugar === |
| Determine which of the various methods of running Sugar meet your needs: | | Determine which of the various methods of running Sugar meet your needs: |
| * '''Pre-installed Sugar:''' | | * '''Run Sugar pre-installed in a computer''' |
| *: Some computers come with Sugar pre-installed, most notably the OLPC XO-1 laptop. | | *: Some computers come with Sugar pre-installed, most notably the [[olpc:Hardware|OLPC XO laptops]]. |
| * '''Live CD / Live USB:''' | | *: Some deployments use the [https://sugardextrose.org/ Dextrose] distribution of Sugar. |
| *: Suitable for trying Sugar without having to install any software on almost any computer—just boot Sugar off of a CD or USB drive. '''Note:''' When booting a Live CD, the Journal is not automatically saved on shutdown, because the boot media is readonly. All changes are lost upon shutdown or reboot. This is not a limitation for Live USB installations. See our [[Sugar on a Stick]] project page. | | * '''Boot a Live CD / Live USB pre-installed with Sugar''' |
| * '''Install Sugar:''' | | *: Suitable for trying Sugar without having to install any software on almost any computer—just boot Sugar off of a CD or USB drive. '''Note:''' When booting a Live CD, the Journal is not automatically saved on shutdown, because the boot media is readonly. All changes are lost upon shutdown or reboot. This is not a limitation for Live USB installations. See our [[Sugar on a Stick]] project page or other [[:Category:Live USB|Live USB projects]]. |
| *: If you are running one of the currently supported distributions, you can install Sugar using your systems standard package manager, e.g., Synaptic, apt-get, or yum. | | * '''Install Sugar''' |
| *: Make custom Fedora F11/F12 Sugar Install or Live DVD/CD's [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora#Make_you_own_custom_Fedora_F11.2F12_Install_or_Live_DVD.2FCD.27s] | | *: If you are running one of the currently supported distributions, you can install Sugar using your systems standard package manager, e.g., Synaptic, apt-get, or yum. See [[Fedora#Sugar_Learning_Environment|these instructions]]. |
| * '''Emulator/Virtualizer:''' | | *: The [[Harmonic Distribution]] of the Sugar Learning Platform may also appeal to you. |
| | * '''Install an emulator or virtualizer and launch a bootable Sugar disk image file''' |
| *: [[QEMU]], [[VirtualBox]], or [[VMware]] let you run Sugar in an emulator or by virtualization on your computer—you'll need to install an emulator from which you launch Sugar and one of the [[Emulator image files]]. | | *: [[QEMU]], [[VirtualBox]], or [[VMware]] let you run Sugar in an emulator or by virtualization on your computer—you'll need to install an emulator from which you launch Sugar and one of the [[Emulator image files]]. |
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| Refer to the [[#Matrix of Sugar solutions|matrix]] below to find a Sugar solution that works for you.
| | ==Supported distributions== |
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| === Computer labs === | |
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| * Bill Kerr has written up instructions for trying Sugar in computer labs which run only Windows
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| *:(Please see [http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/07/evaluating-sugar-in-developed-world.html].)
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| * Caroline Meeks is developing a deployment model that only requires one USB stick per child. (Please see [[Sugar on a Stick]].)
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| ==Matrix of Sugar solutions== | | ==Matrix of Sugar solutions== |
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| * As a [[#Starch|complete disk image]] on an existing machine; | | * As a [[#Starch|complete disk image]] on an existing machine; |
| * As a [[#Sucrose|session]] on a Linux system; or | | * As a [[#Sucrose|session]] on a Linux system; or |
| * As part of a [[#Systems|complete hardware-software platform]]. | | * As part of a complete hardware-software platform. |
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| ===[[/Technical considerations | Technical considerations]]=== | | ===[[/Technical considerations | Technical considerations]]=== |
| : A discussion of '''technical considerations''' regarding supported systems. | | : A discussion of '''technical considerations''' regarding supported systems. |
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| ===Starch===
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| [[Taxonomy#Starch.28es.29:_A_complete_disk_image_for_Sugar|Starch]] is a complete disk image for Sugar.
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| ===Sucrose===
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| [[Taxonomy#Sucrose:_The_interface.2C_plus_a_set_of_demonstration_activities|Sucrose]] is the Sugar interface plus a set of demonstration activities. System maintainers should visit the [[Packaging Team]] page.
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| ===Sugar for various hardware systems=== | | ===Sugar for various hardware systems=== |
| Since Sugar is now available on most major GNU/Linux distributions, it is possible to run Sugar almost any computer that can run GNU/Linux. We highlight some systems below. Please add your favorite to the list.
| | * [[OLPC|OLPC XO laptops]] |
| | | * [[Macintosh]] |
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| MacBook Air
| | *:* [[Sugar on a Stick/Macintosh]], [[Testing/Reports/Sugar on a Stick#MacBook_Persistent_SoaS_v5_and_SoaS_v6_EFI_Boot_USB|another example]] |
| OSX 10.6.6 (Virtualbox 4.0.2)[[Emulator_image_files#VirtualBox]] VirtualBox runs on most hardware and OS's
| | *:* [[VirtualBox#on_Mac_OS_X|VirtualBox on Mac OS X]] |
| Works well in VirtualBox including wireless and magic mouse
| | *: PowerPC processor |
| Burned Soas.iso for Soas-v4 and Soas-v3 boot fine
| | *:* [[Fedora#PowerPC]] |
| [[Downloads#Apple_Mac_OS_X Apple Mac OS X]]<br>[[Sugar on a Stick/Mac]] | | *:* [[Ubuntu/PPC]] |
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| == Getting the Sugar sources == | | == Getting the Sugar sources == |
| Distributors can find the latest sources for the sucrose components [[Development Team/Release/Modules|here]]. Each [[{{Current Stable Release}}| release page]] has as links to the release pages of earlier releases. | | Distributors can find the latest sources for the sucrose components [[Development Team/Release/Modules|here]]. Each [[{{Current Stable Release}}| release page]] has as links to the release pages of earlier releases. |
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| ==Updating Sugar to the Latest Version== | | ==Updating Sugar to the latest version== |
| | === XO laptops === |
| | * [[OLPC:Releases]] |
| | * [https://sugardextrose.org/ Dextrose development site] - [[Dextrose]] |
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| | ==Looking at Sugar variants== |
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| ===Ubuntu===
| | See [[Sugar System Stack]] for a picture of the software stack. |
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| '''[[Community/Distributions/Ubuntu]]'''
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| : UbuntuSugarRemix and 10.04LTS
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| '''https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sugar'''
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| : UbuntuSugarRemix
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| | [[Taxonomy#Starch.28es.29:_A_complete_disk_image_for_Sugar|Starch]] is a complete disk image for Sugar. |
| Ubuntu 9.04 and 8.10 [[Community/Distributions/Ubuntu#Using_sugar_PPAs]].
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| For a LiveCD/LiveUSB, check out the instructions [http://dev.laptop.org/~probono/sbuntu/].'''(Note that this produces a very old sugar version 0.82.1)'''
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| Updated sucrose packages are usually published in a PPA: See [[Community/Distributions/Ubuntu#Sugar_on_Ubuntu_8.04|here]] for details.
| | [[Taxonomy#Sucrose:_The_interface.2C_plus_a_set_of_demonstration_activities|Sucrose]] is the Sugar interface plus a set of demonstration activities. System maintainers should visit the [[Packaging Team]] page. |
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| If you want up-to-the-minute freshness (and brokenness) you can use [[Development Team/Jhbuild|jhbuild]] to build from source instead of the released packages. Follow the instructions [[Development Team/Jhbuild#Creating_an_xsession_for_Sugar-jhbuild|here]] to install sugar-jhbuild as an xsession option.
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| ===Debian===
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| [[Community/Distributions/Debian]]
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| *sugar 0.88.0 works nicely in Debian squeeze
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| Sucrose packages are usually updated in unstable. These packages migrate to testing after a while. You can see the current package versions [http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=sugar&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all here]. | |
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| If you want up-to-the-minute freshness (and brokenness) you can use [[Development Team/Jhbuild|jhbuild]] to build from source instead of the released packages.
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| ===Fedora===
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| ==== Fedora LiveCD/Live USB ====
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| :Project page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sugar (superseding: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sugar_Spin)
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| With this spin, you'll be able to run Sugar, which is developed by Sugarlabs and the desktop environment used on the OLPC, directly from a Live CD! You'll find several activities on the image including most notably...
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| * sugar-browse - a web browsing activity based on xulrunner
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| * sugar-write - a word processor based on abiword
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| ...along with several other activities including Chat support.
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| :See our [[Sugar_on_a_Stick | Sugar on a Stick page]].
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| The Fedora OLPC SIG, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OLPC, will be importing further activities into Fedora, which might be installed using ''yum install sugar-*'' at a later time.
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| :Recent development spins:
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| ::http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/1/
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| For more information, please refer to the announcement here:
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| https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-olpc-list/2008-December/msg00061.html
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| Fedora 11 Preview contains USB Creator which can make USB and SD's with persistence of Fedora F11 (and Sugar if added with Synaptic) and Soas-beta's [satellit 04/30/2009]
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| What if you wanted to put it quickly onto your USB Key? You'll just need to grab Luke Macken's liveusb-creator, which already includes support for the Sugar Spin. Here's the link:
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| :http://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/
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| The liveusb-creator still contains an old link, which is the reason why you'll need to download the spin manually until this gets fixed.
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| '''Tip of the hat:''' Sebastian Dziallas and the Fedora team
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| ==== Fedora on an OLPC XO ====
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| On an OLPC XO-1 laptop, run olpc-update as root.
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| Normally you only need to run ''olpc-update'' in the Terminal application with a build number, like this:
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| '''Note:''' Now you can do this by means of the graphical [[olpc:Sugar Control Panel|Sugar Control Panel]].
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| ===OLPC Clean Install===
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| http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Clean-install_procedure
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| ====Joyride====
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| See [[OLPC:Future releases]], the Joyride train is in the round house.
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| <big><font color=red>Joyride is for developers; it is not supported. Joyride builds may cause data corruption and in rare cases, even cause hardware damage, so please do not use Joyride on mission-critical systems.</font></big>
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| Joyride contains all the "bleeding-edge" features that are being debugged for inclusion in the next release.
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| Open the Terminal application and type the following, substituting 2469 for the latest version number.
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| # olpc-update joyride-2469 | |
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| '''What's the latest version?''' You can find the latest build number (shown above as 1779) at the bottom of http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/xo-1/streams/joyride/
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| Updates usually takes 10–15 minutes. It's advised that you plug your XO in while Sugar updates itself, then reboot it to see the new OS take effect.
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| ==== Other Options ====
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| These are options that can be used with the update command:
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| # olpc-update --help
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| <pre><nowiki>
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| olpc-update [options] --hints hints-file
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| olpc-update [options] [-rf] build-number
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| olpc-update [options] [-rf] --usb
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| olpc-update --version
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| olpc-update --help
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| olpc-update 630
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| olpc-update joyride-1779
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| olpc-update update.1-700
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| -h, --help show this help message and exit
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| -f, --full skip incremental update attempt.
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| --force force update to an unsigned build.
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| -r, --reboot reboot after a successful update.
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| --hints=FILE name of json-encoded hints dictionary identifying the desired
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| new version.
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| -u, --usb upgrade from new build on inserted USB stick.
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| -v display verbose progress information; repeat for more verbose
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| output.
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| -q, --quiet don't output anything; use exit status to indicate success.
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| --version display version and license information.
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| </nowiki></pre>
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| ==== Fedora on the XO-1 ====
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| One of the updated ways of installing sugar on the XO can be seen here.
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| http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_XO-1
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| ==== SOAS on the XO ====
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| You can also install sugar on a stick on the XO-1
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| * [[Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation/OLPC]]
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| ===Gentoo===
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| * There are two methods to get Sugar on your Gentoo box: [[Community/Distributions/Gentoo#sugar-jhbuild|sugar-jhbuild]] and [[Community/Distributions/Gentoo#Sugar overlay|Sugar overlay]]. '''See''' [[Community/Distributions/Gentoo|Gentoo]] for details.
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| ===ALT Linux===
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| * ALT Linux Team is an international software developers team, collectively working on [http://en.altlinux.org/Sisyphus Sisyphus].
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| *'''To install''' Sugar try these [[Community/Distributions/ALTLinux#Setup|packages]].
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| ===Mandriva===
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| To install Sugar on Mandriva follow these [[Community/Distributions/Mandriva#Setup|instructions]].
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