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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 the unstable version 0.90 of Sugar, using the Ubuntu repositories,
- use Sweets on Ubuntu,
- switch to the Trisquel distribution,
- switch to some other distribution,
- use a virtual appliance, or;
- install from Sugar source.
Introduction
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
VirtualBox Appliance to import
How to install Sugar Desktop 0.90 on Ubuntu or Edubuntu 11.10
- 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