Summary
The major purposes for this distribution:
- If Sweets is more appropriate for personal usage, Sweets Distribution might be useful for Sugar distributors, e.g., special GNU/Linux distributions targeted on Sugar usage;
- Some times, it is mostly impossible to have recent Sugar release in not recent GNU/Linux distributions, e.g., LTS releases, and Sweets Distribution will be helpful in that case;
- Sweets Distribution is only about packaging Sugar sweets, thus, it is zero-cost effort; the downside, it is impossible to add Sweets Distribution's packages to official repositories of GNU/Linux distributions.
This is a special, only Sugar, distribution. The key points that make Sweets Distribution different to the rest of Distributions are:
- Sweets Distribution is formed as a 3rd party repository, i.e., it is not regular GNU/Linux distribution;
- It supports several GNU/Linux distributions at the same time;
- Packages from these repositories do not interfere with the rest of the system, e.g., it is possible to use Sugar from Sweets Distribution and Sugar from official repositories at the same time.
Content
Sweets Distribution contains only Glucose, Fructose and Sugar Platform dependencies. The reason to not include more activities:
- people can install activities at any time,
- it is easy to support Sweets Distribution based Sugar distribution with including activities that are more appropriate for the current use case.
Releases
All releases are based on dextrose/sugar sweet and contain pristine Glucose and Dextrose patches.
The following list is a list of Sweets Distribution releases and GNU/Linux repositories they support. The list of supported GNU/Linux distributions is populated entirely on purpose, e.g., Ubuntu packages are being used in Trisquel. Please, submit a request if you need more.
Sweets Distribution 0.88
Stable Dextrose 2 based releases:
Sweets Distribution 0.94
Testing Dextrose 3 based releases:
Installation
Ubuntu
Import repository gpg key. For example for Ubuntu-11.04 repository, type in a terminal:
curl http://download.sugarlabs.org/packages/SweetsDistribution:/0.94/Ubuntu-11.04/Release.key | sudo apt-key add -
Refresh information about repositories:
sudo apt-get update
Install full Sweets Distribution, i.e., Sugar Shell and Fructose activities:
sudo apt-get install sweets-distribution
Install only Sugar Shell:
sudo apt-get install sweets-sugar
Usage
To run Sugar in emulator mode, select Education/Sugar application menu item or type in a terminal:
sweets-sugar-emulator
To login into Sugar session, choose Sweets Distribution session type.
Feedback
- Submit your bug report or feature request.
- Subscribe to the sugar-devel mailing list and email with the subject prefixed with [SWEETS].
- Ask your question on IRC channels, #sugar (not logged) or #sugar-newbies (logged).