Running the Sugar interface on Debian

Status

(This section last updated december 2008)

Most of latest stable Sucrose is packaged officially for Debian (444021).

Installation on Sid/Lenny

The following command installs all available parts of the Sugar environment:

aptitude --with-recommends install sugar

In addition to the above, newer packages intended for Debian but not yet officially included, is made available for Sid and Lenny, for i386 and amd64, using one of these APT lines:

deb http://debian.jones.dk/ sid sugar
deb http://debian.jones.dk/ lenny sugar

Building Sugar packages for Debian

Work on improved packaging from scratch is available through these commands:

sudo aptitude install git-buildpackage
git clone git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/sugar-base
cd sugar-base
git fetch origin upstream:upstream
git-buildpackage

If you have improvements to the above GIT work, then please advertise your own forked GIT repository here.

git clone git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/sugar-journal-activity

Using sugar-jhbuild

To get the latest development versions you can use sugar-jhbuild.