Sugar Instructions

Installing

If you have a real laptop, Sugar is already installed. Otherwise you can either use an emulated laptop which comes with sugar, or you can install Python on your desktop PC and run the Sugar application directly on your PC. If you are running Sugar from Python

First Booting

Whenever you boot an emulated laptop, press SPACE to choose emulated.

The real or emulated laptop will go through the booting steps, saying OK after each one. Don't press or type anything.

Then it will go to a login prompt. You don't have to type anything. Just wait and it will start the GUI. If you don't want to wait for the GUI to load, you can log in with username "root" and no password.

If you wait, the GUI will start. If the GUI fails to start, you may have forgotten to choose emulated when you booted, or you may have encountered the "GUI won't start" bug. The "GUI won't start" bug is fixed by reinstalling the hard disk image. In QEMU, delete the .img file (it has become corrupted), and extract the original .img file from the bz2 file, or download the image file again. Upgrading to a later version isn't necessary.

Choosing a User-name

The first time Sugar starts it will pop up with a box asking for a username. Type in any name you want the computer to call you. Don't leave it blank. Press OK or Enter. It will automatically choose a colour for you.

Sugar Desktop

The Sugar desktop starts up in "Home" mode. This shows a picture of you, surrounded by the activities you are currently using.