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- It is Recommended to look at Trisquel for another solution
- Trisquel is Ubuntu based and works well. (Trisquel 4 and 4.1 is based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Trisquel 4.5, on Ubuntu 10.10.)
- Trisquel 4.5.1-sugar: Trisquel On A Sugar Toast#trisquel-sugar_4.5.1_i686
- Sugar on Ubuntu wiki:https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sugar
Sugar Desktop 0.90 on edubuntu 11.10
- Updated: 10/20/2011
- Note classic gnome fallback is available on install
- http://edubuntu.org/download
To install Sugar
- Ubuntu Software Center/Education (All Software)
- Search: sugar
sugar 0.90 [x] use this one bugs: 1-) cp/software update does not work 2-) Central f1 Avitar disappears after several minutes sugar 0.84 sugar 0.88 sugar 0.86
- Control Panel:
- ubuntu 10.10
- Sugar 0.90.1
- Hints:
- 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)
- Hints:
- Sugar only comes with turtle art 98 and pippy 37
- Surf-115 can be drag dropped to the journal from a 2nd USB
- Download to USB: http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Surf-115.xo
- This allows installation of many activities from ASLO (surf start new screen/activities) including the following:
physics 8 terminal 31 edit 8 surf 115 irc 10 chat 72
Sugar Desktop 0.94 on edubuntu 11.04
- RECOMMENDED
- http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/11.04/release/
- This is a DVD full of Educational Software to which Sugar can be added with the instructions below:
- Use Sweets_Distribution to install sugar
Sugar Desktop 0.88.1 on Ubuntu 11.04
- 11.04 has replaced Gnome with the Unity interface plus sugar 0.88.1
- Works fine if you drag-drop surf-115.xo to journal from 2nd usb.
- You then can install the applications you need from ASLO: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/
- Works fine. Tested on a new install 07/31/2011
suggestion choose "Ubuntu classic" from gdm log-in switcher. (This gives Classic Gnome Desktop)
- Tested on an ACER ASPIRE ONE N450 10" Netbook
- Everything works on all of these options, including wireless.
Sugar Desktop 0.94 on xubuntu 11.04
- http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/11.04/release/
- RECOMMENDED
- "The newly released Xfce 4.8 is included. The menus in Xfce 4.8 are now editable with any menu editor that meets the freedesktop.org standards. The suggested editor is alacarte. "
sudo apt-get install alacarte
- enter "alacarte" in terminal
- click on properties in education/sugar change command to "sugar-emulator -f" (full screen)
- Check [x] on main menu to display alacarte on xubuntu menu
- This is a CD with a minimal desktop to which Sugar can be added with the instructions below:
- Use Sweets_Distribution to install sugar
Sugar-desktop 0.88 on Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10
Sweets Distribution
- NEW Sweets Distribution Updated instructions 10/23/2011
- Community/Distributions/Sweets_Distribution#Releases
- These are Dextrose (2 and 3), thus more than just Sugar (0.88 - 0.94), it contains several features that still are not committed to the trunk + bug fixes.
Full Screen Sugar-emulator
- Applications/Education/Sugar
- right click: Add this launcher to the desktop
- Open (right click)/Properties/Command: sweets-sugar-emulator -f
- add -f to command (full screen)
- Close
- Click on Sugar Icon
Sugar Desktop from gdm Login
- Logout
- Click on Name
- Select Sweets Distribution on gdm bottom bar
- enter password; Login
- Tested on install 10/24/2011
- To turn off screensaver and power management:
- HINT:CAPS lock does not always work in sugar-terminal so use shift key to get lower case.
terminal: xset s off xset -dpms
Ubuntu on MacBookPro
Ubuntu 10.10 for PowerPC
- See /PPC.
Sweets Usage
Archive
Ubuntu Sugar Remix, Maple Syrup, and earlier Ubuntu versions