Sugar on Ubuntu
Latest UbuntuSugarRemix
As of December 2009, We started a total refactoring of how Sugar is packaged in Ubuntu.
Please See the Ubuntu Sugar Remix https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sugar for the latest information.
The Sugar packages for Ubuntu provide a Sugar environment that is easy to install and can be configured as an X session in gdm or run in a window with sugar-emulator.
For some people the emulator mode has a serious bug where modifier keys get stuck. A work around is to disable keyboard repeat.
- from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sugar web page :
Getting Ubuntu Sugar Remix
Step 1: Download Ubuntu Sugar Remix CD image
- The CD images are available from http://download.sugarlabs.org/usr/
- Install to Hard Disk
- Boot from Hard Disk
1-)Sugar only
- Hint; to pull in the latest updates including activities: <ctrl> <alt> f5 will get terminal
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade (pulls in 197 updates 09/11/2010 )
- Use this browser Surf-115.xo: http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Surf-115.xo (sugar-browse does not work)
- To install Surf: download Surf-115.xo to a USB (outside of sugar); Start USR Insert this USB and drag-drop it into the USR sugar-journal.
2-)install xfce to sugar only install above
- for xfce apt-get xfce*
- Also installs Ubuntu Desktop Edition (gnome)
- sugar; xfce and gnome available on logout on switcher bar on bottom of login screen
3-)older version of USR and Gnome
- http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/USR-i386-20100804.iso
- (Gnome Desktop plus Sugar in sugar-emulator)
- Sugar is available as menu item Education/Sugar; but it is not full screen and not all of the Sugar screen is visible.
- For Full Screen right click on menu item and save to desktop, then open properties of icon on desktop and change command to "sugar-emulator -f" (full screen option) Start Sugar from this icon...
Sugar on Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid)
recommended method to install 10.04 Lucid:
Do new install of Ubuntu 9.10 press Alt + F2 and then type "update-manager -d" (without quotes). It will show you that a newversion of Ubuntu is available. Click on Upgrade to upgrade your current Ubuntu 9.10
Lucid has Sugar 0.88, 0.86, and 0.84 packages synced from Debian.
The current preferred method of running Sugar on Ubuntu is via Ubuntu Sugar Remix which can be downloaded at http://people.sugarlabs.org/dfarning
Packages can also be install via sudo
sudo apt-get install sugar-0.88 <possibly depreciated>
You can also install Ubuntu Sugar remix on a computer running Ubuntu 10.04. from UbuntuSugarRemix wiki: [1]01/28/2010
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sugarteam/ppa sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install ubuntu-sugar-remix
Reporting Bugs
Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuSugarRemix/Report for information on reporting bugs.
This is likely to be reimplemented as Lucid hits Feature Freeze The Ubuntu Sugar team will do their best to provide fixes for bugs, but it does take time to get an updated package uploaded through Ubuntu's Stable Release Updates process. Where possible we'll suggest a workaround, or provide a fix in the Sugar Team PPA first.
Maple-syrup
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with Sugar and many other applications for netbooks (using EeePC1000HE with external USB HD)
- Mentioned in August 23, 2010 http://planet.sugarlabs.org/
passwords
There are three users - the password for each account is the username. "student" - most restricted account, no install permissions, no > non-removable disk mounting "teacher" - no install permissions, access to student files "netbook" - admin account, with superuser privileges
install
- DVD Image: http://people.sugarlabs.org/~it/maple_syrup-O121_v02_v03.iso
- Burned .iso to DVD
- Booted DVD
- Used Ubuntu USB Startup Disk Creator to install .iso to 250 GB external USB HD
- Booted 250 GB external USB HD
- logged in as netbook pswd netbook
- "system/Main Menu"
- properties for sugar changed command sugar to be "sugar-emulator -f"
- started education/sugar
- did drag-drop to journal from 2nd usb : http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Surf-115.xo
- started surf-115 from journal
- went to activities (ASLO)
- downloaded terminal-31.xo; IRC-5.xo
- logged off sugar
- restarted sugar so activities would be in f3 ring.
- In terminal
sudo apt-get updates sudo apt-get upgrade
Added ppa
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sugarteam/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ubuntu-sugar-remix
- rebooted maple_syrup
Sugar-0.88 on Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic)
NOTE If 0.86 ppa was used before, you'll have to clean it up (unfortunately 0.86 ppa uses epoch versions and couldn't be used with 0.88 one):
sudo apt-get remove `dpkg-query -W -f '${package} ${maintainer}\n' | grep alsroot | awk '{print $1}'`
sudo sed -i '/alsroot.sugar-0.86/d' /etc/apt/sources.list
To install:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alsroot/trisquel-edu-3.5 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install sugar-platform
Sugar-0.86 on Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic)
To install:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alsroot/sugar-0.86 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install sugar-platform
Sugar-0.86 on Ubuntu 9.04 (jaunty)
Before attaching ppa, load gpg key
gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv F265806A9BFFF0F4 gpg --export --armor F265806A9BFFF0F4 | sudo apt-key add -
Then attach PPA and install entirely Sugar Platform:
sudo sh -c 'echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/alsroot/trisquel-edu-3/ubuntu jaunty main >> /etc/apt/sources.list' sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install sugar-platform
Sugar-0.84 on Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy)
Before attaching ppa, load gpg key
gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv F265806A9BFFF0F4 gpg --export --armor F265806A9BFFF0F4 | sudo apt-key add -
Then attach PPA and install entirely Sugar Platform:
sudo sh -c 'echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/alsroot/trisquel-edu/ubuntu hardy main >> /etc/apt/sources.list' sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install sugar-platform
ejabberd collaboration server on Ubuntu
We use ejabberd for a collaboration server. Ubuntu 8.10 ships with the required patches included in ejabberd, so you can install ejabberd, configure it and have working collaboration within minutes, using these installation instructions: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Installing_ejabberd/deb
For Ubuntu 8.04 you need to build from source: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Installing_ejabberd
Sugar Team
Sugar on Ubuntu is packaged and maintained by the Ubuntu Sugar team[2], who welcome new contributors to test, document, triage, and make packages.