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=== Ways to run Sugar ===
Determine which of the various methods of running Sugar meet your needs:
* '''Run Sugar pre-installed in a computer'''
*: Some computers come with Sugar pre-installed, most notably the [[olpc:Hardware|OLPC XO laptops]].
*: Some deployments use the [https://sugardextrose.org/ Dextrose] distribution of Sugar.
* '''Boot a Live CD / Live USB pre-installed with Sugar'''
*: Suitable for trying Sugar without having to install any software on almost any computer&mdash;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]].
* '''Install Sugar'''
*: 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]].
*: 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&mdash;you'll need to install an emulator from which you launch Sugar and one of the [[Emulator image files]].


==Try Sugar==
==Supported distributions==
This page is intended to give instructions on how to try Sugar:
{{:Supported distributions}}
 
''Step 1.'' Determine which of the various methods of running Sugar meet your needs:
;LiveCD/LiveUSB:Suitable for trying Sugar without having to install any software on almost any computer&mdash;just boot Sugar off of a CD or USB drive.
;Emulator:QEMU or VMWare let you run Sugar in an emulator on your computer&mdash;you'll need to install an emulator from which you launch Sugar.
;Install Sugar: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.
;Build Sugar:You can run sugar-jhbuild to build the complete Sugar environment on most GNU/Linux systems.
;Pre-installed Sugar: Some computers come with Sugar pre-installed, most notably the OLPC-XO-1 laptop.
 
''Step 2.'' Refer to the [[#Matrix of Sugar solutions|matrix]] below to find a Sugar solution that works for you.
 
=== Computer labs ===
 
Bill Kerr has written up instructions for trying Sugar in computer labs which run only Windows
(Please see [http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/07/evaluating-sugar-in-developed-world.html]).
 
Caroline Meeks is developing a deployment model that only requires one USB stick per child (Please see [[DeploymentTeam/School_Key]]).


==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.
 
(A discussion of '''technical considerations''' regarding supported systems is found [[Supported systems/Technical considerations|here]].)
 
===Starch===
 
[[Image:Sugar-on-CD-USB.jpg]]
 
[[Taxonomy#Starch.28es.29:_A_complete_disk_image_for_Sugar|Starch]] is a complete disk image for Sugar.
 
{|border=1
|+ '''A complete disk image for Sugar'''
|-
!Name
!Sugar Version
!Tested
!Notes
|-
|[ftp://rohrmoser-engineering.de/XO-LiveCD/XO-LiveCD_081106.iso LiveBackup XO-LiveCD]
|0.82
|No
|This is a Live CD of the OLPC system. [ftp://rohrmoser-engineering.de/XO-LiveCD/XO-LiveCD_081106.pdf Release Notes]
|-
|[[Image:Fedora.jpg|30px]][http://download.sugarlabs.org/sugar/liveimages/fedora-sugar-spin/fedora-sugar-spin-0.82-i686.iso LiveBackup Fedora-LiveCD]
|0.82
|Yes
|This is a Fedora Live CD of the Sugar system
|-
|[[Image:Ubuntu.jpg|30px]][http://dev.laptop.org/~probono/sbuntu/ Ubuntu LiveCD/LiveUSB]
|0.82
|
|Instructions for installing a Ubuntu LiveUSB
|}
 
===Sucrose===


[[Taxonomy#Sucrose:_The_interface.2C_plus_a_set_of_demonstration_activities|Sucrose]] is the Sugar interface plus a set of demonstration activities.
===[[/Technical considerations | Technical considerations]]===
 
: A discussion of '''technical considerations''' regarding supported systems.
{|border=1
|+ '''The interface, plus a set of demonstration activities'''
|-
!Operating System !! Version !! Sugar Version !! Bundled !! Tested !! Notes
|-
|colspan=6 align=center|binary packages available
|-
|[[Image:Debian.jpg|30px]]Debian||4.0||0.82||Yes||Yes||[[Community/Distributions/Debian | Sugar on Debian]]
|-
|[[Image:Fedora.jpg|30px]]Fedora||7,8,9||0.82||Yes||Yes||[[Community/Distributions/Fedora | Sugar on Fedora]]
|-
|[[Image:Ubuntu.jpg|30px]]Ubuntu||8.04 (Hardy)||0.79.0-0ubuntu3||Yes||Yes||[[Community/Distributions/Ubuntu | Sugar on Ubuntu]]
|-
| ||8.10 (Intrepid)||0.82||Yes|| ||[[Community/Distributions/Ubuntu#Sucrose_0.82 | Sugar on Ubuntu]]
|-
|colspan=6 align=center|packages not pre-built
|-
|[[Image:Gentoo-logo.svg|30px]]Gentoo||[x86] [amd64] 2008-10-31||0.83.1||Yes||Yes||[[Community/Distributions/Gentoo | Sugar on Gentoo]]
|-
|MacOS X|| || || || ||[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_on_MacOS_X Sugar on MacOS X]
|-
|[[Image:Slackware.png|65px]]||Slackware 12|| || || ||[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_on_Slackware Sugar on Slackware]
|-
|[[Image:XP.gif|78px]]||WindowsXP|| || ||No||[[Supported systems/Windows|Sugar on Windows (using QEMU)]]
|}


===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]]
{|border=1
*: Intel processor
|+ '''Complete Sugar Solutions'''
*:* [[Sugar on a Stick/Macintosh]], [[Testing/Reports/Sugar on a Stick#MacBook_Persistent_SoaS_v5_and_SoaS_v6_EFI_Boot_USB|another example]]
|-
*:* [[VirtualBox#on_Mac_OS_X|VirtualBox on Mac OS X]]
!Manufacturer
*: PowerPC processor
!Model
*:* [[Fedora#PowerPC]]
!Operating System
*:* [[Ubuntu/PPC]]
!Tested
!Notes
|-
| [http://www.laptop.org OLPC]
| XO-1
| Fedora 9
| Yes
| Standard (reference) distribution
|-
| [http://www.asus.com ASUSTeK]
| Eee PC
|
| In initial testing phase
|
|-
| [http://www.intel.com Intel]
| Classmate Gen 1 & Gen 2
|
| under development
|
|}


== Getting the Sugar sources ==
== Getting the Sugar sources ==
Distributors can find the latest sources for the sucrose components [[ReleaseTeam/CurrentRelease/Sucrose#Getting_the_sources|here]]. Each [http://sugarlabs.org/go/ReleaseTeam/Roadmap#Schedule sucrose roadmap] entry has as well 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.


==Updating Sugar to the Latest Version==
==Updating Sugar to the latest version==
=== XO laptops ===
* [[OLPC:Releases]]
* [https://sugardextrose.org/ Dextrose development site] - [[Dextrose]]


<span class="plainlinks">
==Looking at Sugar variants==
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Ubuntu http://sugarlabs.org/wiki/images/e/e2/Ubuntu.jpg]
</span>
===Ubuntu===


For a LiveCD/LiveUSB, check out the instructions [http://dev.laptop.org/~probono/sbuntu/].
See [[Sugar System Stack]] for a picture of the software stack.


Updated sucrose packages are usually published in a PPA: See [[Community/Distributions/Ubuntu#Sugar_on_Ubuntu_8.04|here]] for details.
===Starch===


If you want up-to-the-minute freshness (and brokenness) you can use [[DevelopmentTeam/Jhbuild|jhbuild]] to build from source instead of the released packages. Follow the instructions [[DevelopmentTeam/Jhbuild#Creating_an_xsession_for_Sugar-jhbuild|here]] to install sugar-jhbuild as an xsession option.
[[Image:Sugar-on-CD-USB.jpg]]


<span class="plainlinks">
[[Taxonomy#Starch.28es.29:_A_complete_disk_image_for_Sugar|Starch]] is a complete disk image for Sugar.
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Debian http://sugarlabs.org/wiki/images/a/a1/Debian.jpg]
</span>
===Debian===


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&section=all here].
===Sucrose===
 
If you want up-to-the-minute freshness (and brokenness) you can use [[DevelopmentTeam/Jhbuild|jhbuild]] to build from source instead of the released packages.
 
<span class="plainlinks">
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora http://sugarlabs.org/wiki/images/1/1e/Fedora.jpg]
</span>
===Fedora===
==== Fedora LiveCD/Live USB ====
 
The Fedora Sugar Spin incorporates the Sugar environment on a Fedora Live CD.
 
With this spin, you'll be able to run Sugar from a Live CD! You'll find several activities on the image including most notably...
 
* sugar-browse - a web browsing activity based on xulrunner
* sugar-write - a word processor based on abiword
 
...among with several other applications introducing e.g. chat support.
 
The Fedora OLPC SIG will be importing further activities into Fedora, which might be installed using 'yum install sugar-*' at a later time.
 
Where can you get it? Easily, here:
 
http://download.sugarlabs.org/sugar/liveimages/fedora-sugar-spin/fedora-sugar-spin-0.82-i686.iso
 
Alternatively, you might want to refer to this, which is in fact the same image, just on another location:
 
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/olpc/0.82/i686/sugar-spin.iso
 
Please ''be aware'' of the fact that the link above has changed recently - the old one won't work anymore! For more information, please see this post: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-olpc-list/2008-November/msg00003.html
 
And what if you wanted to put it onto a USB Key? Even easier!
You'll just need to grab Luke Macken's liveusb-creator, which already
includes support for the Sugar Spin. Here's the link:
 
https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/liveusb-creator/liveusb-creator-3.0.zip
 
The liveusb-creator still contains the old link, which is the reason why you'll need to download the spin manually until this gets fixed.
 
'''Tip of the hat:''' Sebastian Dziallas and the Fedora team
 
==== Fedora on an OLPC XO ====
 
On an OLPC XO-1 laptop, run olpc-update as root.
 
Normally you only need to run ''olpc-update'' in the Terminal application with a build number, like this:
 
# olpc-update 703
 
'''Note:''' Now you can do this by means of the graphical [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_Control_Panel Control Panel].
 
==== Update to the latest experimental version (a.k.a. Joyride) ====
 
<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>
 
Joyride contains all the "bleeding-edge" features that are being debugged for inclusion in the next release.
 
Open the Terminal application and type the following, substituting 2469 for the latest version number.
 
# olpc-update joyride-2469
 
'''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/
 
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.
 
==== Other Options ====
 
These are options that can be used with the update command:
 
# olpc-update --help
<pre><nowiki>
Usage:
olpc-update [options] --hints hints-file
olpc-update [options] [-rf] build-number
olpc-update [options] [-rf] --usb
olpc-update --version
olpc-update --help
 
For example:
olpc-update 630
olpc-update joyride-1779
olpc-update update.1-700
 
Options:
  -h, --help    show this help message and exit
  -f, --full    skip incremental update attempt.
  --force      force update to an unsigned build.
  -r, --reboot  reboot after a successful update.
  --hints=FILE  name of json-encoded hints dictionary identifying the desired
                new version.
  -u, --usb    upgrade from new build on inserted USB stick.
  -v            display verbose progress information; repeat for more verbose
                output.
  -q, --quiet  don't output anything; use exit status to indicate success.
  --version    display version and license information.
</nowiki></pre>
 
<span class="plainlinks">
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Gentoo http://sugarlabs.org/wiki/images/5/5e/Gentoo-logo-small.jpg]
</span>
===Gentoo===
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.
 
==Sugar Application Stack==
 
Sugar is designed to encourage children that have not been exposed
or indoctrinated in any exiting computing environment. It has
Activities rather that programs or applications. Sugar is
implemented on top of existing or modified operating systems
and hardware. The Activities are accessed by the user in Sugar.
One of the Activities, Browse, has lets the student examine
library collections. Some of these are included with the
Sugar system. Others may be installed from the web or they
can be created locally.
 
The hierarchy of the system is:
 
- Library Collections (Browse Activity)
- Activities
- Sugar
- OS
- Hardware
 
Graphical view of the Sugar Application Stack:
 
<pre>
----------------------------------------------------------
|      Library Collections |      |      |      |    |
| Pre-installed    Locally-|      |      |Turtle |    |
|        From-web  created |      | EToys |  Art  | ... |
|--------------------------| Write |      |      |    |
|          Browse          |      |      |      |    |
----------------------------------------------------------
|                        Sugar                          |
----------------------------------------------------------
|  XOS  |  Linux  |  MacOSX  |  MSWindows+QEMU  | ... |
----------------------------------------------------------
|  OLPC XO  |  Asus EEE PC  |  Intel Classmate  | ... |
----------------------------------------------------------
</pre>


[[Category:Supported systems]]
[[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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