Sugar on Debian

The Debian wiki has a specific page for Sugar at Debian install Sugar

Debian installer will install Debian to hard drive where Sugar has been tested to run well on Squeeze.

Sugar versions 0.84, 0.86. and 0.88 are offered on Squeeze.

Sucrose packages are usually updated in unstable. These packages migrate to testing after a while. You can see the current package versions here.

If you want up-to-the-minute freshness (and brokenness) you can use jhbuild to build from source instead of the released packages.

See also the Debian Edu product Skolelinux

Notes on install to USB

Main cdimage Downloads Debian

debian-installer

download squeeze_live-i386-iso-hybrid

isohybrid_CD info

InstallToUsbMemoryStick

  example:  dd if=debian-xxxxxxxx.iso of=/dev/sdX

squeeze/releasenotes

Debian-squeeze +Sugar Desktop Virtual Appliance for VirtualBox 4.0

Install sugar via Synaptic

download squeeze_live-i386-iso-hybrid

Install to HD
Reboot 
start Synaptic
Repositories select all 3 
select Server for USA
click all 3 boxes
Third Party Software 
 http://......
reload
search for "sugar"
click on all 0.88 sugar packages
apply 
how to configure full screen
Browse Activities  (Download the activities you want)

How to install sugar-jhbuild

compile-sugar-on-debian-testing-wheezy

GTK3 in Debian Wheezy

(From http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg26211.html)

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 17:45, Manuel Kaufmann <humitos@gmail.com> wrote: > Do you have a clue about this?

This was my workaround to this problem:

1. /etc/apt/sources.list

  deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
  deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

2. update the package database

  sudo apt-get update

3. download the source code

  cd /tmp
  mkdir pygobject
  apt-get source python-gi

4. install dependecies

  sudo apt-get build-dep python-gi
  sudo apt-get install python-gobject-2-dbg

5. compile python-gi

  cd pygobject-3.2.0
  wget -c http://mkaufmann.com.ar/~humitos/olpc/pygi-d37680bb9390426f7f58ea3d352c3e5e2106e978_modified.patch
  git apply pygi-d37680bb9390426f7f58ea3d352c3e5e2106e978_modified.patch
  dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b

6. install compiled packages

  sudo dpkg -i ../*.deb

Now, when I run "./sugar-jhbuild run sugar-emulator" I can see the icons and the toolbar properly.

Testing

Where Debian is installed via the Debian installer or virtual machine Sugar has been reported to run nicely.

sugar 0.88.0 works nicely in Debian squeeze

Low footprint versions (eg no Gnome Display Manager) with SLiM and Openbox only, have been reported to cause a problem. User:Inkyfingers/Debian , Jun 23 2012