How to install sugar-desktop on Trisquel_6.0
I just installed sugar 0.94.1 on a Trisquel 6.0 Virtual Box install [1]
Tom Gilliard
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[1]http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Trisquel#Trisquel_6.0
"Ubuntu will install a handicapped sugar 0.90 from it's repos
There are only 2 activities and they do not start. "
Do I read this right, the version of sugar in Tris 6 don't work? If so, please file a bug.
On 03/13/2013 12:08 PM, name at domain wrote:
> "Ubuntu will install a handicapped sugar 0.90 from it's repos
> There are only 2 activities and they do not start. "
>
> Do I read this right, the version of sugar in Tris 6 don't work? If
> so, please file a bug.
>
Sugar in Ubuntu is brain dead:
work on building it quit a few years ago.
There is no one currently working on fixing it.
Use Sweets_Distribution for a working Sugar-desktop (nice sugar 0.94)
look at :
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Trisquel#Trisquel_6.0
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Trisquel#Install_Sugar
:The following is a summary of this link:
=> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sweets_Distribution#Installation
:Consult it for more detailed information
Type the following commands in a terminal:
wget ftp://download.sugarlabs.org/packages/sweets-distribution.sh
sudo sh sweets-distribution.sh
sweets-distribution status
sudo sweets-distribution select 0.94
apt-get install sweets-desktop
(The full set of packages from Sweets Desktop.)
this will be a big download
:Sometimes, it may be required to downgrade packages while switching to
another repository.
:The easy way to do so is with the sync command:
sudo sweets-distribution sync
:Most of the Sweets Distribution packages will be placed in the
/opt/sweets directory; :thus, it will be possible to use Sugar from the
Sweets Distribution and from official packages at the same time.
*Access sweets-sugar from:
1 menu/education/sugar
2 Or by logging out and logging in to sweets-sugar via gdm