Raspberry Pi are a series of small, low cost, low power computers.
Sugar can be run on a Raspberry Pi. You will need a display, keyboard and mouse.
Raspbian Buster
Sugar 0.112 can be loaded using Instructions for Debian Buster,
Sugar 0.116 can be loaded using our package archive;
- add to
/etc/apt/sources.listfile this line;
deb [arch=armhf trusted=yes] http://people.sugarlabs.org/~quozl/rb buster main
- update the package lists;
sudo apt update
- install Sugar 0.116;
sudo apt install sucrose
- install sample activities;
sudo apt install sugar-{abacus,browse,calculate,chart,chat,clock,\
develop,finance,findwords,fototoon,fractionbounce,gears,\
imageviewer,implode,jukebox,letters,log,maze,measure,memorize,\
moon,music-keyboard,paint,physics,pippy,poll,portfolio,read,\
record,speak,stopwatch,story,terminal,words,write}-activity
- choose Sugar for restart by adding a file, like this;
echo sugar > .xsession
- restart the Raspberry pi;
sudo reboot
Sugar on a Stick
As of August 2017, the best to use was Sugar on a Stick, as it had many activities and regular security updates. See Sugar on a Stick for how to download and install it. Sugar on a Stick is a spin of Fedora.
Other methods are;
Developers may focus on either Fedora or Debian when setting up a development environment for Sugar on Raspberry Pi, because Sugar development on generic computers is focused on those operating systems.