Sugar on Ubuntu

The Sugar (Sucrose) packages for Ubuntu provide a Sugar environment that is easy to install and can be configured as an X session in gdm or run in a window with sugar-emulator.

It is a much simpler platform to set up for activity developers, than jhbuild.

Sugar on Ubuntu is packaged and maintained by the Ubuntu Sugar team, who welcome new contributors to test, document, triage, and make packages.

Sugar on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (hardy)

Sugar 0.79.0

Old, but included in Hardy

Sugar was packaged in Universe for Hardy (Ubuntu 8.04) by Jani Monoses. The version packaged is 0.79.0, similar to the version in OLPC Release 8.1.0.

Installation instructions

There are extra packages in a PPA, including activities that could not be included in the Ubuntu archive due to license issues, as well as updated abiword packages.

Sucrose 0.82

Up-to-date version

The Ubuntu packages were updated to the latest 0.82 point release in the Sugar Team PPA.

Installation instructions:

sudo -s
echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/sugarteam/ubuntu hardy main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sugar.list
apt-get update
apt-get install sugar sugar-emulator sugar-activities

Sugar on Ubuntu 8.10 (intrepid)

Intrepid, the next Ubuntu release due out on 30 October 2008, has Sucrose 0.82 packages synced from Debian.

Installation instructions:

sudo apt-get install sugar sugar-activities

Some activities could not be included due to missing dependencies - notably Read and Write. These will be published in the Sugar Team PPA soon.

ejabberd on Ubuntu

We use ejabberd for a collaboration server. Ubuntu 8.10 ships with the required patches included in ejabberd, so you can install ejabberd, configure it and have working collaboration within minutes, using these installation instructions: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Installing_ejabberd/deb

For Ubuntu 8.04 you need to build from source: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Installing_ejabberd