Sugar Learning Environment

Installing Sugar in Fedora

Using the GUI, from the Applications Menu, select Administration, select Software. Select (top item) Package collections, scroll down to

Sugar Desktop Environment
sugar-desktop

Installing this will automatically draw in a useful selection of Activities.

Alternatively or additionally, from the Applications Menu, select Administration, select Software. Enter Sugar in the search field.

Among all the Packages select,

  The emulator for the Sugar Learning Environment
sugar-emulator.version-number

and any or all of the Sugar Activities.

Or, using the command line, in a root terminal, enter

yum install @sugar-desktop  sugar-emulator        

Launching Sugar

With sugar-desktop and sugar-emulator installed you have two ways of running Sugar.

1. To launch the Sugar Desktop Environment (also known as a Sugar session) you must reboot.

When you reboot Fedora, at the point where you login, login screen, a "Sugar" entry will now be present, maybe hidden, usually in the lower part of the login prompt, under a "settings icon" or under "Session Type".

Note, the "Sugar" entry in the login screen may not be very obvious at first, and the look will depend on the login manager on your system. This image shows the "Sugar" entry being selected in Fedora 20. Click the image to enlarge.

Select "Sugar" within the login prompt, enter your password, and Enter, and the computer will boot into Sugar Desktop Environment.


2.The Sugar emulator will be available (no restart required) from the Applications Menu, Select Education, Select Sugar

Sugar will run in a Xephyr window, Sugar in a window, within your current desktop environment. You will have full access to Sugar features, and may even run multiple instances. Networking bugs may currently prevent collaboration with others in the jabber.sugarlabs.org server Neighborhood. Press key F1 to see the Sugar Neighborhood view.

See emulator screen size adjustment.

Note sugar-emulator does not exist in Fedora 20. A replacement (sugar-runner?) is still being developed. As a result there will be no entry in the Education menu for Sugar. The Sugar Desktop Environment is unaffected.

Fedora Sugar on a Stick Spin

Sugar is pre-installed in a Live CD Fedora Spin. That can be installed.

Working for testing

Previous versions and other subpages index

Earlier versions of Sugar on a Stick and other project pages can be reviewed at these pages:

Sugar via the Sweets Distribution

Advanced

Install with sweets

A very advanced installation method also available for Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva, openSUSE, and Gentoo.
Installation
Sweets Usage
Sweets Packaging

Fedora Distributions

Go to Fedora 20 ===>
Beta TC2 Released for testing 08-Oct-2013
Go to Fedora 19 ===>
Released on 2 July 2013.
Go to Fedora 18 ===>
Released on 15 January 2013.

Fedora 17

Released on 29 July 2012.

  Fedora®

Fedora and the Infinity design logo are trademarks of Red Hat, Inc.

Download:

https://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-all
Torrent: http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
Boot Options
  • Anaconda boot options modified for Fedora 17
  • Anaconda memory requirements for Fedora 17 (08 June 2012)
    "We dropped the requirement to 512 MB. Also the 'nomemcheck' parameter was added to disable the minimum check if people really want to try installing with 384 MB or 256 MB."


Notes

PowerPC

  Fedora GNOME 3 shell

Dracut

UEFI Boot

Lenovo info
UEFI Boot

Dynamic Firewall

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DynamicFirewall

"This feature adds support for a dynamically managed firewall that is able to handle firewall changes without the need to rebuild the whole firewall. The firewall daemon manages the firewall and has a D-BUS interface to interact with clients or services, that request firewall changes."

CD boots EFI to MAC and into a PC

no persistence when running from CD

Persistent boot USB

MAC: MacBook persistent SoaS v5 and SoaS v6 EFI Boot USB instructions
PC-Linux Downloads#GNU.2FLinux

Anaconda (installer)

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Anaconda_updates.img_via_local_media
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda_Boot_Options
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Options
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Updates

Systemd

f17 Unity Desktop Port


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