User:Humitos/SugarOnAStick
This is a short guide to show how you can contribute with the Sugar project in a simple way, without dealing with sugar-jhbuild, installing libraries and compiling weird things. You can work directly on a Stick (USB Pen Drive). Even more, if you want to work faster on your real computer you can run it inside a Virtual Machine with qemu-kvm
In the below sections are shown the steps that you have to follow to get a complete working Virtual Machine with all the necessary things to start collaborating.
NOTE: I made this guide on Fedora 17 and if you are using another distro maybe the name of the packages change
Packages needed
These are the packages needed to run the Virtual Machine with qemu-kvm
sudo yum install qemu qemu-kvm qemu-kvm-tools
Sugar On A Stick Images
This is the image (32-bits) that you should download to install it on the Virtual Machine.
Booting Sugar from the USB on a Virtual Machine
- Create the virtual hard disk drive:
qemu-img create -f qcow2 sugar-on-a-stick.qcow2 4G
- Run the virtual machine
qemu-kvm -m 1024 -k es -cdrom Fedora-17-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso -boot d
Installing Sugar on the hard drive
- After running the last command and setting up your name you will be on Sugar itself
- Open Terminal Activity
- Run this command to lunch the installer
liveinst
- When the installer opens and you reach the partitioning part you have to select to do it manually and create just one partition with the full space available (4Gb) because otherwise the installer will tell you there is no sufficient space to copy the files required by Fedora 17
- Follow the installation instruction and finally reboot the Virtual Machine
Running Sugar from the Virtual Machine
qemu-kvm -hda sugar-on-a-stick.qcow2 -m 1024 -k es
Install useful packages
sudo yum install git vim emacs