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= Sugar on Ubuntu =
= Sugar on Ubuntu =


The Sugar packages for Ubuntu 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.
'''As of December 2009, We started a total refactoring of how Sugar is packaged in Ubuntu.'''


It is a much simpler platform to set up for activity developers than jhbuild, although is not bleeding-edge.
'''Please See the Ubuntu Sugarteam wiki at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SugarTeam for the latest information.'''


@the below:
The Sugar packages for Ubuntu 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.
I am building a package for 9.04 as we speak. should be done in a few days. (by the 20th of August)
-Colin Applegate
 
:{I might get flamed for this; I know I shouldn't post on a wiki like this, but no one will read the discussion: can we list a simple way of installing from jhbuild on Ubuntu 9.04 or installing from a PPA?  Is 0.83 in the Ubuntu sugar PPA recent enough?  How about installing from source (not git/jhbuild) and then adding an X session?  With Ubuntu being the most popular Linux distribution, it is in the interest of this project to flesh out these details.}


Sugar on Ubuntu is packaged and maintained by the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SugarTeam Ubuntu Sugar team], who welcome new contributors to test, document, triage, and make packages.


[https://launchpad.net/sugar Sugar bug reporting Ubuntu].




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For Ubuntu 8.04 you need to build from source: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Installing_ejabberd
For Ubuntu 8.04 you need to build from source: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Installing_ejabberd
= Sugar Team ==
Sugar on Ubuntu is packaged and maintained by the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SugarTeam Ubuntu Sugar team], who welcome new contributors to test, document, triage, and make packages.
[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sugar-0.88 Sugar bug reporting Ubuntu].


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