Debian is a downstream distribution project that uses Sugar.
Packaging of Sugar on Debian is done by a team:
* pkg-sugar project, * pkg-sugar-devel mailing list, * pkg-sugar-commit mailing list, * pkg-sugar git repositories, * package archive of Jonas Smedegaard,
Old stable Wheezy Release Information
The Debian wiki has a specific page for Sugar at Debian install Sugar, but it is out of date.
The old stable Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" includes parts of 0.96: most of Glucose, but missing most of Fructose.
Sucrose packages are usually updated in the unstable repository. These packages migrate to the testing repository after a while. You can see the current package versions here.
Those interested in developing Sugar software should visit our developer documentation website.
For virtualization and emulation see also Emulator image files.
See also the Debian Edu product Skolelinux
Debian Packages
"All packages that are included in the official Debian distribution are free...."
Debian Live
- Manual: http://live.debian.net/manual/current/index.en.html
- Download: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/
Debian Fork of Mate
- Point Linux is a GNU/Linux distribution that aims to combine the power of Debian GNU/Linux with the productivity of MATE, the Gnome 2 desktop environment fork.
Download
Notes on install to USB disk
example:
dd if=debian-xxxxxxxx.iso of=/dev/sdX
Install Sugar via Synaptic
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)
Fixing dependencies in Wheezy
This article describes the process to compile Sugar on Debian testing Wheezy, in order to install sugar-jhbuild.
http://humitos.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/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, are reported in this link to cause a problem.