Ubuntu

Summary

You have an Ubuntu system and you wish to try Sugar?

As of 2012-02, Ubuntu does not have a stable version of Sugar in the Ubuntu repositories. Until this is fixed, your choices are:

use Sweets on Ubuntu,
switch to the Trisquel distribution,
switch to some other distribution,
use a virtual appliance,
use the unstable version 0.90 of Sugar, using the Ubuntu repositories, or;
install from Sugar source.

How to install a Sugar virtual appliance

This is covered in a section of the Sugar Creation Kit page:

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Ubuntu_11.04_sweets-distribution_sugar_0.94

How to install Sugar Desktop 0.90 on Ubuntu or Edubuntu 11.10

click on Applications, then Ubuntu Software Centre,
search for Sugar,
click on Install,

Sugar will be downloaded and installed.

Only comes with Pippy and TurtleArt activities. 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:

 /usr/bin/sugar-emulator -f

If you need to turn off screensaver and power management:

xset s off
xset -dpms