[Sugar-devel] Can we be a little more friendly to Ubuntu users

[Thomas C Gilliard]

Ubuntu sweets-distribution is alsroots port of sugar 0.94 to Ubuntu with 
some Dextrose features.
  Works well-just copy-paste commands from page into Ubuntu 11.04 
"gnome-classic" terminal

  http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Sweets_Distribution#Installation

Tom Gilliard

On 02/26/2012 06:08 PM, Edward Mokurai Cherlin wrote:
> On Sun, February 26, 2012 8:49 pm, Ma Xiaojun wrote:
>> Hi, all
>>
>> My main reference is
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Ubuntu , I assume
>> its accuracy. Please correct me when needed.
>>
>> The BIG picture I got:
>> Install Sugar 0.90 is easy, but it is obsolete.
>> Sugar is 0.94 is recommended, but, how to install it?
> The big picture answer, apart from instructions for non-standard
> installations from non-standard repositories, is to work with the
> Debian and Ubuntu packagers to streamline the packaging of new Sugar
> releases in order to get them into the upgrade stream in a timely
> manner. If somebody involved in the process can explain exactly what
> is needed, I expect that we can recruit some more helpers. (Similarly
> for RPM packaging for Red Hat and other distributions that use that
> format.)
>
> My understanding is that the process can be automated in whole or in
> part if the dependencies don't change radically between versions.
> Someone like Jonas Smedegaard who is involved in the process can
> correct me if I have misunderstood, and can greatly amplify what I am
> telling you.
>
>> What to do with
>> the fancy link
>> http://download.sugarlabs.org/packages/SweetsDistribution:/0.94/Ubuntu-11.04/
>>
>> I happened to know what is /etc/apt/sources.list .
>> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/natty/man5/sources.list.5.html
>>
>> You should know what I mean, BUT:
>> Should we have some documentation for adding this repository in CLI and
>> GUI?
>> Should we have a PPA to make things easier? I mean PPA's apt line is
>> simpler and there is a CLI shortcut for adding PPA.
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu
>>
>> I'm not a Ubuntu or Linux expert anyway. I have no access to a working
>> Ubuntu temporarily, so, let me collect some discussion first.
>>
>> Thank you in advance.
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