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==Download== |
==Download== |
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Sugar is currently under heavy development. |
Sugar is currently under heavy development, and is not meant for use by anyone but developers and tinkerers. There are no binary packages yet available, and you must build from sources. |
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=== Build from sources === |
=== Build from sources === |
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Sugar |
Sugar has a fair number of dependencies, some of which are not yet packaged by distributions (e.g. xulrunner). The easiest way to build Sugar is to [[Sugar with sugar-jhbuild|use sugar-jhbuild]]. |
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* Check out [[sugar-jhbuild]] |
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git clone git://dev.laptop.org/sugar-jhbuild |
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* Build sugar and his dependecies |
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cd sugar-jhbuild |
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./sugar-jhbuild |
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* Run sugar |
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sugar-jhbuild run |
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Note that [[sugar-jhbuild]] is still in early development. In particular, dependencies detection will be improved. It needs a lot of testing, so give it a try and [http://dev.laptop.org/newticket?component=sugar report issues]! |
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=== Source repositories === |
=== Source repositories === |
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=== Distribution specific === |
=== Distribution specific === |
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* [[Sugar on Windows|Microsoft Windows]] |
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* Suse instructions can be found at [[Sugar Setup on SUSE]] |
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* [[Sugar on MacOS X|Apple MacOS X]] |
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* [[Installing_sugar--devel_on_Ubuntu_Linux|Using sugar-jhbuild on Ubuntu Linux]] |
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* [[Sugar on FreeBSD|FreeBSD]] |
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* [[Sugar on SUSE|SUSE]] |
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* [[Sugar on Ubuntu Linux|Ubuntu]] |
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* [[Sugar on Fedora Core|Fedora Core]] |
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* [[Sugar on Debian|Debian]] |
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==Milestones== |
==Milestones== |
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Revision as of 17:01, 29 June 2006
This page is monitored by the OLPC team.
For the category Sugar, see Category:Sugar.
About
Application developers on the OLPC will mostly be working with Python, the GTK GUI and the GECKO HTML engine. This combination is called Sugar.
Sugar is the core of the OLPC Environment. It's goal is to turn the Laptop into a fun, easy to use, social experience that promotes sharing and learning.
Download
Sugar is currently under heavy development, and is not meant for use by anyone but developers and tinkerers. There are no binary packages yet available, and you must build from sources.
Build from sources
Sugar has a fair number of dependencies, some of which are not yet packaged by distributions (e.g. xulrunner). The easiest way to build Sugar is to use sugar-jhbuild.
Source repositories
Distribution specific
Milestones
 Demo 1 - Seven Country Task Force Meeting, May 23rd 2006 |
Design Reviews
Design Review 2 - Notes & Mockups
External Links
- Screenshots here: http://www.eschoolnews.com/eti/2006/05/001414.php
- Some notes on Sugar: http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=200
- Marc Eisenstadt's comments on the environment with some links to other similar projects.
- UI mockups for the OLPC are found here.