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Sugar Desktop 0.90 on Ubuntu 11.10

NOTE: This version uses previous Sugar release. Collaboration is broken

• Install package 'sucrose-0.90' with apt or Ubuntu Software Center.
• Only comes with pippy and turtleart
• You'll need to install the remaining individual activities by downloading them from http://activities.sugarlabs.org/ and installing each within a terminal:

sugar-install-bundle activity.xo

• To turn off screensaver and power management:

terminal:
xset s off
xset -dpms

Inactive Ubuntu Sugar Remix Team:https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sugar

Sugar Desktop 0.90 on edubuntu 11.10

Sugar 0.90 is NOT RECOMMENDED

Updated: 10/20/2011

Note classic gnome fallback is available on install

http://edubuntu.org/download

• Ubuntu Software Center/Education (All Software)
• Search: sugar
• sugar 0.90 [x] use this one

• 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)

• Sugar only comes with turtleart and pippy
• [[1]] can be drag dropped to the journal from a USB key or by going to a terminal and doing:

sugar-install-bundle activity.xo

This allows installation of many activities from [[2]] including the following:

physics
terminal
edit
irc
chat

Sugar Desktop 0.90 with Trisquel

Trisquel is Ubuntu based and works well. (Trisquel 4.1 is based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Trisquel 5, on Ubuntu 11.04.

= Linux Mint

[Mint webpage]

Sweets

Sweets works

• Advanced installation skills required

Not normal sugar but sweets Sugar

Like Trisquel 5.0-sugar (TOAST)

Has Dextrose features

Sugar Desktop 0.94.1 on Mint 11 with sweets

Ubuntu Sugar Team

from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sugar web page :

Sugar Team

Sugar on Ubuntu is packaged and maintained by the Ubuntu Sugar team[3], who welcome new contributors to test, document, triage, and make packages.