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Tested 04 March 2012

How to install Sugar 0.88.1 on Ubuntu 11.10

supported by ubuntu until April 2012
Ubuntu has updated Software Center and now only 0.88.1 sugar is offered. Tested --Satellit 14:44, 4 March 2012 (EST)

There are many problems with Sugar on Ubuntu, many of which have been fixed in a later version, so we recommend the Sweets or virtual appliance methods instead. There is only firefox offered as a browser and it is not fully "sugarized" and will not install .xo files correctly as it cannot access the sugar-journal

To install Sugar 0.88.1 on Ubuntu 11.10:

click on Ubuntu Software Center,
search for Sugar,
click on sugar-emulator
click on Install.
click and install other required applications

Sugar will be downloaded and installed.

To start Sugar,: Applications/Education/Sugar

Recommended:

right click on sugar and add to desktop
right click on XO Sugar Avatar on Desktop
Properties: change command to sugar-emulator -f (full screen)

How to install Sugar 0.87.2 on Ubuntu 10.40.4 LTS

supported by ubuntu until April 2013

To install Sugar 0.87.2 on Ubuntu 10.40:

click on Ubuntu Software Center,
search for Sugar,
click on sugar-emulator
click on Install.
click and install other required applications

To start Sugar,: Applications/Education/Sugar

Recommended:

right click on sugar and add to desktop
right click on XO Sugar Avatar on Desktop
Properties: change command to sugar-emulator -f (full screen)

How to install Sugar 0.90.1 or 0.88 on Ubuntu 11.04

supported by Ubuntu until October 2012

There are many problems with Sugar 0.90 on Ubuntu, many of which have been fixed in a later version, so we recommend the Sweets or virtual appliance methods instead.

Note: The Ubuntu Sugar Remix; sugar 0.88 and sugar 0.90 are offered but 0.90 is default install with sugar-emulator. Sugar emulator 0.88 is also available--Satellit 15:03, 4 March 2012 (EST)

To install Sugar 0.90.1 on Ubuntu 11.04:

click on Applications, then Ubuntu Software Center,
search for Sugar,
click on Install.

Sugar will be downloaded and installed.

To start Sugar, click on Applications, then Education, then Sugar.

Install Linux Mint 11 with sweets-distribution 0.94.1

Once Mint is installed and running

Register a repository by importing its gpg key. For example, for the Ubuntu-11.04 repository, enter the following in a terminal:
sudo apt-add-repository 'deb http://download.sugarlabs.org/packages/SweetsDistribution:/0.94/Ubuntu-11.04/ ./'
wget -qO- http://download.sugarlabs.org/packages/SweetsDistribution:/0.94/Ubuntu-11.04/Release.key | sudo apt-key add -

Start Package Manager/Reload
Search (__sweets__)

Select [x]sweets-distribution

apply

Download 88 packages

Changes Applied (Close)
Menu/Education/Sugar

Sugar-emulator starts on chose colors screen

Click on colored central XO Avitar to change colors

click on <== back to change name

enjoy

USR-experimental

IRC Freenode #ubuntu-sugarteam
WIKI:https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuSugarRemix?action=show&redirect=SugarTeam
Launchpad:https://launchpad.net/~sugarteam

USB-Creator

http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4216/ Activity for Ubuntu only

Not usable in USR-20100628 satellit 07/10/2010

Also look at Trisquel Toast as it uses a common ppa http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Trisquel

Problems running under Jaunty (9.04)

I'm moving these comments from the main page, since I can more easily respond to them here. --HorsePunchKid 18:13, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Neil Mayhew 16:28, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

I was able to make the sugar packages work by adding a gconf setting:

gconftool-2 -s /desktop/sugar/desktop/favorites_layout -t string ring-layout

I think this will be fixed by adding the right gconf schema to the package, and hopefully will be fixed in version 0.84.

There are still lots of non-fatal error messages in the terminal, but it looks like these can be ignored. I used sugar-emulator --dpi=200. Logging in to a Sugar session from gdm worked too.

I tried sugar-emulator --dpi=200 and I got flashing screen on 9.04 and no joy.--Dennis Daniels 00:29, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Here's the video of the above not working: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nveCbiHxjUQ

Previously, it was thought that a problem with Xephyr and dbus was at fault, but the above workaround shows that it's a Sugar packaging problem.

That will get you back to the point where you see the underlying problem, which is reported in ~/.sugar/default/logs/shell.log that has to do with dbus. See here for a possible resolution. --HorsePunchKid 18:22, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Note 2: Ubuntu 9.04 USB Startup disk program makes SD which can be updated. If you add user and switch to new user, the Install icon goes away from the desktop and is now located in System Administration unlike Fedora 11 Preview where it is not removed from a user's desktop, And a system update fails.

Note 3: sugar-emulator in terminal results in a black screen with mouse coursor. Have to Alt-Tab get out..

Possible error in Ubuntu installation notes, should it not be:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sugarteam/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-sugar-remix

Danellisuk 14:39, 23 July 2010 (EDT)