New lurker! :-)

[Aaron Kaplan]

>
> Running activities in the jhbuild (sugar-emulator) environment
> on Ubuntu is going to be tough.  We've not done much to support
> running Sugar on distros other than Fedora 7.  That could be an
> interesting project, but certainly it would require you to
> upgrade at least to something like Feisty to get most of the
> support packages needed by Sugar.

The doku in wiki.l.o about running Sugar native in ubuntu gutsy  
worked very well for me.
So, Ed you might want to try that.