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Sugar Desktop 0.90 on Ubuntu 11.10

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

Install sucrose-0.90

sudo apt-get install sucrose-0.90

Only comes with pippy and turtleart, so you'll need to can install each activity bundle individually in a terminal:

sugar-install-bundle activity.xo

You can download activities at [[1]].

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

Ubuntu Sugar Remix Team:https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sugar

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. You can download [[2]] activity bundle and put it in a USB key. Inside Sugar, drag it from the USB key into the Journal to install it.

Or you can install each .xo bundle individually in a terminal:

sugar-install-bundle activity.xo

Either way, you'll need to download activities from It will allow you to go to [[3]].

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

Sugar Desktop 0.90 with Trisquel

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

= Linux Mint

[Mint webpage]

Sweets

Sweets works Advanced installation skills required. Has Dextrose features

Sugar Desktop 0.94.1 on Mint 11 with sweets

@@ Line 4: / Line 4: @@
 NOTE: ''This version uses previous Sugar release. Collaboration is broken''
-*Install package 'sucrose-0.90' with apt or Ubuntu Software Center.
+*Install sucrose-0.90
-*Only comes with pippy and turtleart
-*You'll need to install the remaining individual activities by downloading them from http://activities.sugarlabs.org/ and installing each within a terminal:
+ sudo apt-get install sucrose-0.90
+Only comes with pippy and turtleart, so you'll need to can install each activity bundle individually in a terminal:
   sugar-install-bundle activity.xo
-* To turn off screensaver and power management:
+You can download activities at [[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/|activites.sugarlabs.org]].
+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:
- terminal:
   xset s off
   xset -dpms
-:'''Inactive Ubuntu Sugar Remix Team:https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sugar'''
+''Ubuntu Sugar Remix Team:https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sugar''
 ==[[File:200px-Edubuntu.png]]Sugar Desktop 0.90 on edubuntu 11.10==
 Sugar 0.90 is NOT RECOMMENDED
-::Updated: 10/20/2011
-:'''Note classic gnome fallback is available on install'''
-:http://edubuntu.org/download
-*Ubuntu Software Center/Education  (All Software)
-*Search: sugar
-*sugar 0.90 [x] use this one
-*Hints:
+''Note classic gnome fallback is available on install''
-: Do updates right away
-: System Settings/Network to configure wireless AP
-:Applications/Education/sugar  '''drag sugar XO icon to desktop
-:Properties (right click) change command to sugar-emulator -f  (full screen)
-*Sugar only comes with turtleart and pippy
+*Install sucrose-0.90
-*[[http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Surf-115.xo|Surf-115]] can be drag dropped to the journal from a USB key or by going to a terminal and doing:
+ sudo apt-get install sucrose-0.90
+Only comes with pippy and turtleart. You can download [[http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Surf-115.xo|Surf-115]] activity bundle and put it in a USB key. Inside Sugar, drag it from the USB key into the Journal to install it.
+Or you can install each .xo bundle individually in a terminal:
   sugar-install-bundle activity.xo
-This allows installation of many activities from [[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/]] including the following:
+Either way, you'll need to download activities from It will allow you to go to [[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/|activites.sugarlabs.org]].
- physics
- terminal
+To run Sugar fullscreen:
- edit
+*menu Applications->Education->sugar
- irc
+*drag and drop Sugar icon to desktop
- chat
+*right-click on Sugar icon->Properties
+*change command to:
+  sugar-emulator -f
 === Sugar Desktop 0.90 with Trisquel ===
-[[Community/Distributions/Trisquel|Trisquel]] is '''Ubuntu based''' and works well. (Trisquel 4.1 is based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Trisquel 5, on Ubuntu 11.04.
+[[Community/Distributions/Trisquel| Trisquel]] is '''Ubuntu based''' and works well. (Trisquel 4.1 is based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Trisquel 5, on Ubuntu 11.04.
 ==== Linux Mint ===
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 [[Community/Distributions/Sweets_Distribution |Sweets]] works
-*Advanced installation skills required
+Advanced installation skills required.
-:Not normal sugar but sweets Sugar
+Has Dextrose features
-:Like Trisquel 5.0-sugar (TOAST)
-:Has Dextrose features
 [[File:Mint.png]]
 [[Talk:Community/Distributions/Ubuntu#Install_Linux_Mint_11_with_sweets-distribution_0.94.1|Sugar Desktop 0.94.1 on Mint 11 with sweets]]
-=== Ubuntu Sugar Team ===
-from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sugar web page :
-== Sugar Team ==
-Sugar on Ubuntu is packaged and maintained by the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SugarTeam Ubuntu Sugar team][https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuSugarRemix], who welcome new contributors to test, document, triage, and make packages.
-[[Category:Supported systems]]