[OLPC-Philippines] Sugar on Ubuntu

Carlos Nazareno object404 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 30 10:40:44 EDT 2008


Will Sugar take over the desktop, or is there an easy way to switch
between Gnome/KDE and Sugar without messing up your Gnome/KDE system?

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Jerome Gotangco <jgotangco at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Carlos Nazareno <object404 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey, for those looking to try the XO w/ Sugar GUI without having
>> access to an actual XO machine (MJ, try this), here's how to emulate
>> it on your PC using Sun's Virtual Box
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> In Ubuntu, you don't even need to run it in a VM - you can use the
> system itself to run Sugar UI as well as the activities. You just have
> to download some packages from the universe repositories:
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>  $ sudo aptitude install sugar sugar-activities sugar-emulator
>
> There's also some PPAs involved with much updated packages.
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