Ubuntu

Ubuntu and ubuntu-based distributions

• It is Recommended you use Trisquel as a replacement for your Ubuntu install:

Ubuntu has not updated their repositories for sugar since version 0.90 when the Ubuntu Sugar Remix Team stopped work.

For Sugar only look at Trisquel Toast

Click this link ^

Sugar Desktop 0.94 on Ubuntu 11.04

• Look at sweets-distribution for sugar 0.88 in Ubuntu 10.04 1nd 10.10

Click this link ^

Sweets Distribution is easier to use for Ubuntu' and its Derivatives (Adding an additional Repository via apt commands) as the packages are pre-configured, ready to use.)

(Advanced installation skills required.)

Has Dextrose features

Installation Suggestions

1. Install Ubuntu 11.04
2. Log in to "Gnome-classic" (select it from the drop-down menu on the bottom bar of the login screen.)
3. copy-paste these commands to Ubuntu terminal one line at a time:

sudo apt-add-repository 'deb http://download.sugarlabs.org/packages/SweetsDistribution:/0.94/Ubuntu-11.04/ ./'
wget -qO- http://download.sugarlabs.org/packages/SweetsDistribution:/0.94/Ubuntu-11.04/Release.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sweets-distribution

• The main menu will now have Education/Sugar
• Congratulations you have now installed sugar 0.94

To get sugar to run full screen

• Menu:

Applications/Education/Sugar

Right click on sugar XO

"Add this launcher to the desktop" - chose this option

• right click on the XO that is now on the desktop

"Properties"

Command: sweets-sugar-emulator -f - Add the -f for full screen (Close)

• Now when you click the XO sugar will start full screen and not in a window.

Sugar Desktop 0.90 on Ubuntu 11.10

NOTE: This version uses previous Sugar release. Collaboration is broken

• Sugar 0.90 is NOT RECOMMENDED.
• Install sucrose-0.90

sudo apt-get install sucrose-0.90

Only comes with pippy and turtleart. You can download more Activities from [activites.sugarlabs.org ] from outside of Sugar and install each .xo bundle individually in a terminal with:

sugar-install-bundle activity.xo

To run Sugar fullscreen:

• Go to the menu Applications->Education->sugar
• Drag and drop the Sugar icon to the desktop
• Right-click on Sugar icon and choose Properties
• Change the command to:

 sugar-emulator -f

If you need to turn off screensaver and power management:

xset s off
xset -dpms

Sugar Desktop 0.90 on edubuntu 11.10

Sugar 0.90 is NOT RECOMMENDED

Note: classic gnome fallback is available on install

• Install sucrose-0.90

sudo apt-get install sucrose-0.90

Only comes with pippy and turtleart. To get more activities you can:

Download [the Surf activity ] and put it in a USB key. Within Sugar, copy the bundle to the Journal to install it. Start Surf and point it to [activites.sugarlabs.org ] to get other activities.

Or you can download from [activites.sugarlabs.org ] from outside Sugar and install each .xo bundle individually in a terminal with:

sugar-install-bundle activity.xo

To run Sugar fullscreen:

• menu Applications->Education->sugar
• drag and drop Sugar icon to desktop
• right-click on Sugar icon->Properties
• change command to:

 sugar-emulator -f

Trisquel

Ubuntu based and works well. Trisquel 4.1 is based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Trisquel 5, on Ubuntu 11.04.

• Trisquel is the reason that Sweets-Distribution exists.

alsroot developed it for this Ubuntu based distribution

Linux Mint

• Linux Mint 12 is based on Ubuntu 11.10

Mint web page

Example Install Sugar Desktop 0.94.1 on Mint 11

Sugar Desktop 0.94.1 on Mint 11 with sweets-distribution

Sweets

• This is alsroot's name for it.

(Very Advanced installation skills required.)

Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, openSUSE, and Gentoo

• Links:http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit/sck/Advanced_Topics#Sweets

For supported Distributions see: Supported_distributions

Ubuntu Sugar Remix Archive USR

http://people.sugarlabs.org/dfarning/USR-i386-20100208.iso

• Archive of discontinued project to add Sugar to Ubuntu
• These do not work very well. Not Recommended