Sugar on Ubuntu

Installation

The easiest way to install Sugar on Ubuntu is to use Sugar-jhbuild. The instructions on this page are for Ubuntu 6.06 "Dapper Drake."

apt-get the prerequisites

You need a number of packages from the Ubuntu repositories. Some of these packages are not available for the stock Ubuntu install, and you may need to enable the universe and multiverse repositories.

sudo apt-get install build-essential cvs subversion libgtk2.0-dev libidl-dev \
  gnome-common gtk-doc-tools libxt-dev automake1.7 automake1.9 python-gtk2-dev \
  python2.4-avahi git-core cogito python-dev avahi-utils \
  libgconf2-dev xnest libgnome2-dev mozilla-dev libmatchbox-dev python-cairo-dev

There may be more packages required; if you find any more, please append them to this list.

Using Sugar-jhbuild

Use of Sugar-jhbuild is detailed on building Sugar from sources. To summarize those instructions:

git clone git://dev.laptop.org/sugar-jhbuild
cd sugar-jhbuild
./sugar-jhbuild

If you had already checked out sugar-jhbuild previously, make sure your copy is up-to-date before building:

cd sugar-jhbuild
git pull

On Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake, git has been deprecated. You have to run the following command to get git to work properly.

sudo update-alternatives --config git Select option #2: git-scm

If you were looking for the instructions that were here previously that detailed pulling libraries from CVS/git, check the revisions for this page.

Testing sugar

When using sugar-jhbuild, you can use:

./sugar-jhbuild run

If you want to run Sugar from the source tree enter in a jhbuild shell:

./sugar-jhbuild shell 

Then from the directory sugar-jhbuild/source/sugar), use:

shell/sugar