Ubuntu

It is Recommended to look at Trisquel for another solution

Trisquel is Ubuntu based and works well. (Trisquel 4 and 4.1 is based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Trisquel 4.5, on Ubuntu 10.10.)

Trisquel 4.5.1-sugar: Trisquel On A Sugar Toast#trisquel-sugar_4.5.1_i686

Sweets Distribution

NEW 02/03/2011 alsroot and satellit

This is Dextrose 2, thus more than just Sugar 0.88, it contains several features that still are not committed to the trunk + bug fixes from 0.90+.

• Install sweets sugar 0.88.1 in Ubuntu-10.04/Trisquel-4.1 and Ubuntu-10.10/Trisquel-4.5

sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org 07/03/2011

Alexy:

(Edited by satellit while installing on Ubuntu 10.10 HD install)

Hi all,
If someone is using sweet packages for Ubuntu 10.04/10.10 and Trisquel
4.1/4.5 (thanks satellit for creating instructions of wiki),
its download location was changed from http://bazaar-download.sugarlabs.org/ to the links shown below:

Installation

• Terminal:

sudo su

• Repository uses new gpg key, to import it:

   gpg --keyserver keys.sugarlabs.org --recv 3182B17D
   gpg --armor --export 3182B17D | sudo apt-key add -

Look for 'OK

• Start Synaptic Package Manager

Settings/Repositories/Other Software/Add..

• For Ubuntu-10.04/Trisquel-4.1:

   deb http://download.sugarlabs.org/packages/SweetsDistribution:/0.88/Ubuntu-10.04/ ./
   deb-src http://download.sugarlabs.org/packages/SweetsDistribution:/0.88/Ubuntu-10.04/ ./

• For Ubuntu-10.10/Trisquel-4.5:

   deb http://download.sugarlabs.org/packages/SweetsDistribution:/0.88/Ubuntu-10.10/ ./
   deb-src http://download.sugarlabs.org/packages/SweetsDistribution:/0.88/Ubuntu-10.10/ ./

• Synaptic Package Manager/

Reload

Quick Search (sweets)

check sweets-distribution/apply

exit

• Applications/Education/Sugar

right click: Add this launcher to the desktop

Open (right click)/Properties/Command: sweets-sugar-emulator -f

add -f to command (full screen)

Close

• Click on Sugar Icon

My Settings

About my Computer:

Ubuntu 10.10

0.88.1

• Frame/slide bottom slider full left

restart

• Sugar Desktop starts
• Tested on install 04/05/2011 satellit

• To turn off screensaver and power management:

HINT:CAPS lock does not work in sugar-terminal so use shift key to get lower case.

terminal:
xset s off
xset -dpms

Ubuntu 10.10 for PowerPC

• See /PPC.

UbuntuSugarRemix

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

The USR project does not seem to be active anymore (satellit 07/04/2011)

• work located here: http://download.sugarlabs.org/usr/

Please See the Ubuntu Sugar Remix https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sugar for the latest information.

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.

For some people the emulator mode has a serious bug where modifier keys get stuck. A work around is to disable keyboard repeat.

from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sugar web page :

Sugar-0.88 on Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic)

NOTE If 0.86 ppa was used before, you'll have to clean it up (unfortunately 0.86 ppa uses epoch versions and couldn't be used with 0.88 one):

sudo apt-get remove `dpkg-query -W -f '${package} ${maintainer}\n' | grep alsroot | awk '{print $1}'`
sudo sed -i '/alsroot.sugar-0.86/d' /etc/apt/sources.list

To install:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alsroot/trisquel-edu-3.5
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sugar-platform

Sugar-0.86 on Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic)

To install:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alsroot/sugar-0.86
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sugar-platform

Sugar-0.86 on Ubuntu 9.04 (jaunty)

Before attaching ppa, load gpg key

gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv F265806A9BFFF0F4
gpg --export --armor F265806A9BFFF0F4 | sudo apt-key add -

Then attach PPA and install entirely Sugar Platform:

sudo sh -c 'echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/alsroot/trisquel-edu-3/ubuntu jaunty main >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sugar-platform

Sugar-0.84 on Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy)

Before attaching ppa, load gpg key

gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv F265806A9BFFF0F4
gpg --export --armor F265806A9BFFF0F4 | sudo apt-key add -

Then attach PPA and install entirely Sugar Platform:

sudo sh -c 'echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/alsroot/trisquel-edu/ubuntu hardy main >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sugar-platform

ejabberd collaboration server on Ubuntu

We use ejabberd for a collaboration server. Ubuntu 8.10 ships with the required patches included in ejabberd, so you can install ejabberd, configure it and have working collaboration within minutes, using these installation instructions: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Installing_ejabberd/deb

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 Ubuntu Sugar team[1], who welcome new contributors to test, document, triage, and make packages.

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