Using Sugar on Debian
Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. -- debian.org
In relation to Sugar, Debian is a downstream distribution project that can be used to run Sugar.
Using Sugar on Debian
Sugar is available in Debian:
- install Debian in the usual way, see debian.org, and debian-installer,
- when the install has completed, log in, install Sugar, a display manager, and reboot,
sudo apt install sucrose lightdm
exec sudo reboot
- in the graphical login screen, change from the default X session to Sugar,
- log in as the non-root user, which you will have created during install.
Known bugs include;
- Sugar starts in Journal, workaround is to press F3 button, fixed by Metacity 074af8f,
Update activities using My Settings, Software Update. Updated activities as at 2020-03-07 are Calculate, Chat, Image Viewer, Jukebox, Log, Pippy, Terminal, and Write.
Packaging
Packaging of Sugar on Debian is done by a team:
- pkg-sugar-team project,
- pkg-sugar-devel mailing list,
- pkg-sugar git repositories
- package archive of Jonas Smedegaard,
Sucrose packages are usually updated in the unstable release. These packages migrate to the testing release after a while. You can see the current package versions here.
Interested in developing Sugar software? Visit our developer documentation website.
See also local packaging example.
Derivatives
Derivatives of Debian include:
See Also
- Sugar page on the Debian Wiki,
- the Debian Edu product Skolelinux.