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''Step 1.'' Determine which of the various methods of running Sugar meet your needs:
''Step 1.'' Determine which of the various methods of running Sugar meet your needs:
;Pre-installed Sugar: Some computers come with Sugar pre-installed, most notably the OLPC-XO-1 laptop.
;LiveCD/LiveUSB:Suitable for trying Sugar without having to install any software on almost any computer—just boot Sugar off of a CD or USB drive. For USB Solutions goto our [[Sugar on a Stick]] project page.
;LiveCD/LiveUSB:Suitable for trying Sugar without having to install any software on almost any computer—just boot Sugar off of a CD or USB drive. For USB Solutions goto our [[Sugar on a Stick]] project page.
;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.
;Emulator:QEMU or VMWare let you run Sugar in an emulator on your computer—you'll need to install an emulator from which you launch Sugar.
;Emulator:QEMU or VMWare let you run Sugar in an emulator on your computer—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.
''Step 2.'' Refer to the [[#Table of Sugar solutions|matrix]] below to find a Sugar solution that works for you.


=== Computer labs ===
=== Computer labs ===