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Revision as of 23:27, 27 February 2012

Summary

You have an Ubuntu system and you wish to try Sugar?

As of 2012-02, Ubuntu does not have a stable version of Sugar in the Ubuntu repositories. Until this is fixed, your choices are:

use Sweets on Ubuntu,
switch to the Trisquel distribution,
switch to some other distribution,
use a virtual appliance,
use the unstable version 0.90 of Sugar, using the Ubuntu repositories, or;
install from Sugar source.

How to install a Sugar virtual appliance

This is covered in a section of the Sugar Creation Kit page:

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Ubuntu_11.04_sweets-distribution_sugar_0.94

How to install Sugar Desktop 0.90 on Ubuntu or Edubuntu 11.10

Install the sucrose-0.90 package using Ubuntu Software Centre, or by command line:

sudo aptitude install sucrose-0.90

Only comes with Pippy and TurtleArt activities. 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

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 As of 2012-02, Ubuntu does not have a stable version of Sugar in the Ubuntu repositories.  Until this is fixed, your choices are:
-* use the unstable version 0.90 of Sugar, using the Ubuntu repositories,
 * use [[Community/Distributions/Sweets_Distribution|Sweets]] on Ubuntu,
 * switch to the [[Community/Distributions/Trisquel|Trisquel distribution]],
 * switch to [[Community/Distributions|some other distribution]],
-* use a virtual appliance, or;
+* use a virtual appliance,
+* use the unstable version 0.90 of Sugar, using the Ubuntu repositories, or;
 * install from Sugar source.
-==Introduction==
+==How to install a Sugar virtual appliance ==
-We provide two kinds of information in this page.
-#Existing Ubuntu-based Sugar Spins. A Sugar Spin is a Linux distribution which uses Sugar as its default desktop environment.
-#How to install Sugar for your Ubuntu desktop. It is dependent on your Ubuntu's release version and the Sugar version you are going to install.
-==Ubuntu-based Sugar Spins==
+This is covered in a section of the Sugar Creation Kit page:
-====VirtualBox Appliance to import====
 *http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Ubuntu_11.04_sweets-distribution_sugar_0.94
 ==How to install Sugar Desktop 0.90 on Ubuntu or Edubuntu 11.10==
-*Install sucrose-0.90
+*Install the sucrose-0.90 package using Ubuntu Software Centre, or by command line:
-  sudo apt-get install sucrose-0.90
+  sudo aptitude install sucrose-0.90
-Only comes with pippy and turtleart. You can download more Activities from [[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/| activites.sugarlabs.org ]] from outside of Sugar and install each .xo bundle individually in a terminal with:
+Only comes with Pippy and TurtleArt activities. You can download more Activities from [[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/| activites.sugarlabs.org ]] from outside of Sugar and install each .xo bundle individually in a terminal with:
   sugar-install-bundle activity.xo