Ubuntu
Ubuntu and ubuntu-based distributions
- It is Recommended you use Trisquel for your Ubuntu install:
- Ubuntu has not updated their repositories for sugar since version 0.90 when the [Ubuntu Sugar Remix Team] stopped work.
- See the sections below on Sweets_Distribution to see how to install 0.94.1 sugar on Ubuntu
Sugar Desktop 0.90 on Ubuntu 11.10
NOTE: This version uses previous Sugar release. Collaboration is broken
- Sugar 0.90 is NOT RECOMMENDED.
- 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
Sugar Desktop 0.90 on edubuntu 11.10
Sugar 0.90 is NOT RECOMMENDED
Note: classic gnome fallback is available on install
- Install sucrose-0.90
sudo apt-get install sucrose-0.90
Only comes with pippy and turtleart. To get more activities you can:
Download [the Surf activity ] and put it in a USB key. Within Sugar, copy the bundle to the Journal to install it. Start Surf and point it to [activites.sugarlabs.org ] to get other activities.
Or you can download from [activites.sugarlabs.org ] from outside Sugar and install each .xo bundle individually in a terminal with:
sugar-install-bundle activity.xo
To run Sugar fullscreen:
- menu Applications->Education->sugar
- drag and drop Sugar icon to desktop
- right-click on Sugar icon->Properties
- change command to:
sugar-emulator -f
Trisquel
- Ubuntu based and works well. Trisquel 4.1 is based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Trisquel 5, on Ubuntu 11.04.
- Trisquel is the reason that Sweets-Distribution exists.
- alsroot developed it for this Ubuntu based distribution
Linux Mint
- Linux Mint 12 is based on Ubuntu 11.10
Sweets_Distribution
- This is alsroot's name for it.
- Installs with sweets-distribution will work on Ubuntu also
- Sweets Distribution is easier to use for Ubuntu' and its Derivatives (Adding an additional Repository to synaptic) as the packages are pre-configured, ready to use.)
- (Advanced installation skills required.)
- Has Dextrose features
Example Install
Sugar Desktop 0.94.1 on Mint 11 with sweets-distribution
Sweets
- This is alsroot's name for it.
- (Very Advanced installation skills required.)
- Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, openSUSE, and Gentoo
- For supported Distributions see: Supported_distributions