Ubuntu
Ubuntu and ubuntu-based distributions
Sugar Desktop 0.90 on Ubuntu 11.10
NOTE: This version uses previous Sugar release. Collaboration is broken
- Install sucrose-0.90
sudo apt-get install sucrose-0.90
Only comes with pippy and turtleart, so you'll need to can install each activity bundle individually in a terminal:
sugar-install-bundle activity.xo
You can download activities at [[1]].
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
Ubuntu Sugar Remix Team:https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sugar
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. You can download [[2]] activity bundle and put it in a USB key. Inside Sugar, drag it from the USB key into the Journal to install it.
Or you can install each .xo bundle individually in a terminal:
sugar-install-bundle activity.xo
Either way, you'll need to download activities from It will allow you to go to [[3]].
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
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
Sweets
Sweets works Advanced installation skills required. Has Dextrose features
