Status

Running the Sugar interface on Debian

Installation on plain Sid/Lenny

The following command on Lenny installs all officially available parts of the Sugar 0.82 environment:

aptitude --with-recommends install sugar

Similarly, use one of the following on Sid to install officially available parts of either Sugar 0.84/0.86 environment:

aptitude --with-recommends install sugar-0.84
aptitude install sucrose-0.86

Unofficial add-ons

The official Sid packages is also unofficially backported and made available for Lenny (on i386 and amd64 so far), using this APT line:

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

Similarly, official packages not yet approved and released for Sid are unofficially made available (on amd64 and sometimes other archs too), using this APT line:

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

/!\ NB! Lenny backport includes a backport of several large GTK components which should not, but might anyway, trigger problems with other parts of Lenny using GTK. Please do file bugreports against the packages showing problems as usual, but make sure to mention your use of these backported packages, as some developers may choose to not spend time on bastard systems.

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.

Using sugar-jhbuild

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

Fructose packages missing in Sid