Ubuntu

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