Ubuntu

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

Installation

As of 2012-03, Ubuntu does not have a complete, stable version of Sugar in the Ubuntu repositories. In particular, there is no compatible web browser.

Until this is fixed, try one of these options:

use Sweets on Ubuntu, see below,
use a virtual appliance, compatible with any version of Ubuntu, see below,
use the incomplete version that Ubuntu provide, see the last section below, or
install from Sugar source.

your ubuntu release	your best options for trying Sugar
Ubuntu 12.10	Manual Installation or use a virtual appliance
Ubuntu 12.04	use a virtual appliance
Ubuntu 11.10	use Sweets Distribution or use a virtual appliance
Ubuntu 11.04	use Sweets Distribution or use a virtual appliance
Ubuntu 10.10	use Sweets Distribution or use a virtual appliance
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS	use Sweets Distribution or use a virtual appliance

How to install Sweets on Ubuntu

Install packages on an Ubuntu system so that you may run Sugar.

See How to install Sweets Distribution.

How to install a virtual appliance

Install a virtual appliance based on Ubuntu:

the Ubuntu 11.04 Sweets Distribution Sugar 0.94 virtual appliance,
a tutorial on How to import a virtual appliance into VirtualBox.

There are other virtual appliances based on other distributions, which can be imported into virtualization software on Ubuntu.

see Emulator image files.

How to install Sugar on Ubuntu

There are many problems with Sugar on Ubuntu (see a list for 0.90), many of which have been fixed in a later version of Sugar, so we recommend the Sweets or virtual appliance methods above instead.

In particular, there is no compatible web browser included, though there is a workaround.

However, if you wish to to install Sugar on Ubuntu:

click on Ubuntu Software Center,
search for Sugar,
click on sugar-emulator or sugar,
click on Install,
if asked about other required applications, click to install.

Sugar will be downloaded and installed.

To start Sugar, click on Applications, then Education, then Sugar.

See how to create a desktop icon that runs Sugar full screen.

See Ubuntu/Previous for how to install older versions of Sugar on older versions of Ubuntu using Ubuntu Software Center.

Install the Cinnamon desktop in Ubuntu 12.10

Here's how you can install the Cinnamon desktop in Ubuntu 12.10. You can use it instead of Unity.

1. Open a terminal window.

2. Type in the following commands then hit Enter after each.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cinnamon

sweets-sugar 0.94 does work in Ubuntu 12.10 (unity and cinnamon)