Sweets Distribution

Harmonic Distribution version cycle: | 1.0 | Factory |

Summary

This is a set of repositories with native packages that compose Basic software of Harmonic Distribution effort.

Sweets Distributions packages form two major parts:

Sweets Desktop
Sucrose, desktop environment of Sugar Learning Platform;
Sweets Server
Server Kit components to create school servers to support Sugar Learning Platform.

This is a special, Sugar only, distribution. These are the key points that make the Sweets Distribution different from other Distributions:

The Sweets Distribution is formed as a 3rd party repository, i.e., it is not a complete GNU/Linux distribution;
It supports several GNU/Linux distributions, and their releases, 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 the Sweets Distribution and Sugar from official repositories at the same time.

Repositories

Sweets Distribution provides several repositories:

0.94
Repository with stable Sucrose-0.94 packages;
0.88
Repository with stable Sucrose-0.88 packages;
Factory
Packages in development stage.

Repositories are accessible for all Supported platforms.

Installation

The installation occurs in two phases:

add one of Sweets Distribution repositories to local system;
install packages from added Sweets Distribution repository.

Add repository

Experienced users might follow manual instructions to add Sweets Distribution repositories to the system.

For easy attaching Sweets Distribution repositories, use sweets-distribution command.

If sweets-distribution is not yet installed, type the following commands in terminal:

wget ftp://download.sugarlabs.org/packages/sweets-distribution.sh
sudo sh sweets-distribution.sh

To get the status information about currently selected and all available repositories:

sweets-distribution status

To add chosen, here Factory, repository in the system

sudo sweets-distribution select Factory

Install packages

When sweets-distribution select command will finish, local system will be aware of Sweets Distribution repository and it will be possible to install packages.

Using the regular way, in local system, install one of the following packages:

sweets-desktop
The full packages list from Sweets Desktop;
sweets-sugar
Only Sugar Shell.

Sometimes, it will be required to downgrade packages while switching to another repository. The easy way to do that is sync command:

sudo sweets-distribution sync

Most of Sweets Distribution packages will be placed to /opt/sweets directory, thus, it will be possible to use Sugar from Sweets Distribution and from official packages at the same time.

Usage

To run Sugar in emulator mode, select the Education/Sugar application menu item or enter the following in a terminal:

sweets-sugar-emulator

To login to a Sugar session, choose the Sweets Distribution session type.

To try development version, use the Factory repository. Factory repository provides recent development version of Harmonic Distribution features.

Testing

Link:http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Sweets_Distribution/Testing
Ubuntu 11.10
Trisquel 5.5 RC

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).