Using Sugar on Ubuntu
Ubuntu is a Debian-based Linux operating system, with Gnome as its default desktop environment. -- wikipedia.org
In relation to Sugar, Ubuntu is a downstream distribution project that can be used to run Sugar.
Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)
Sugar 0.117 can be installed with the following commands:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install sucrose
- log out,
- log in with the Sugar desktop selected,
Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine)
Sugar 0.112 can be installed with the following commands:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install sucrose
- log out,
- log in with the Sugar desktop selected,
Known Problems:
- Sugar 0.112 does not start because of ImportError: No module named popwindow, in turn because the Sugar Toolkit 0.116 is not compatible with Sugar 0.112,
Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo)
Sugar 0.112 is in the universe repository, and can be installed with the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo apt update
sudo apt install sucrose
- log out,
- log in with the Sugar desktop selected,
Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) and 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish)
Sugar 0.112 is in the universe repository, and can be installed with the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install sucrose
- log out,
- log in with the Sugar desktop selected,
- press the F3 key to switch to the home view, see below.
Known problems
- Sugar starts in Journal, fixed by 258235c or Metacity 074af8f,
- My Settings, Network, may hang, requires reboot or forced logout to escape, fixed by 04c63f6.