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This guide describes how to use Sugar Labs' Packaging Management System. See also [[Platform_Team/Sweets|introduction page]] and [[Platform_Team/Guide/Sweets_Packaging|Packaging guide]].
This guide describes how to use Sugar Labs' Packaging Management System. See also [[Platform_Team/Sweets|introduction page]] and [[Platform_Team/Guide/Sweets_Packaging|Packaging guide]].
== Installation ==
=== Required packages ===
First, install PackageKit related packages. The following command will also install Polkit authentication agent for Gnome sessions (if you start sugar emulator from Gnome Desktop Environment).
{{Note/important|Important notes for XO users:|Some XO images might mount {{Code|/var/cache/yum}} to the tmpfs. With this limited cache capacity, it will be mostly impossible to install anything of large size from the Fedora repositories. To work around this limitation, become a {{Code|root}} user and enter the {{Code|umount /var/cache/yum}} command in the Terminal activity or a console. To persist this change for subsequent boots, remove the corresponding line from the {{Code|/etc/fstab}} file.}}
Fedora specific instructions:
sudo yum install gnome-packagekit
Debian and Ubuntu (starting from 11.10) based distributions specific instructions:
sudo apt-get install gnome-packagekit
Ubuntu (before 11.10) based distributions specific instructions:
sudo apt-get install packagekit-gnome
After installing PackageKit, you need to restart the DBus system bus. The easiest way is to just restart the machine.


=== Install ===
=== Install ===