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Running the Sugar interface on Debian
Status
Debian 5.0 "Lenny" includes parts of Sucrose 0.82.1: all of Glucose, but missing most of Fructose.
Debian "Sid" includes parts of Sucrose 0.84.0 and Sucrose 0.85.7: all of Glucose, but missing most of Fructose, and metacity too old for 0.85 (547346).
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
Development overview of Sugar packages in Debian is here.
Development comparison between Sugar packages in Debian and Ubuntu is here.
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.
More scripts to initialize a local git repo and to push it back into the master repo are available.
Using sugar-jhbuild
To get the latest development versions you can use sugar-jhbuild.