[Sugar-devel] Sugar for Ubuntu 20.04

D. Joe sugarlabs at etrumeus.com
Thu Feb 20 09:05:39 EST 2020


Sorry, only getting around to seeing this now. Will put on my to-do list setting up a VM as outlined below and doing some testing. 

On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 02:57:20PM +1100, James Cameron wrote:
> I've packaged Sugar and several activities for Ubuntu 20.04.  Is
> anyone interested in joining in?
> 
> - download an Ubuntu Daily Live desktop image, and install on a VM,
>   desktop or laptop,
>   http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/
>   (focal-desktop-amd64.iso 2.4 GB dated 2020-01-24; this is working
>   for me, later versions may have regressions),
> 
> - add my package repository to software sources list, as root;
> 
>   echo "deb [trusted=yes arch=amd64]" \
>        "http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/.us focal main" \
>            > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/olpc.sources.list
>   apt update
> 
> - install the sucrose package,
> 
>   apt install sucrose
> 
> - reboot (so that gdm3 re-reads available session types),
> 
> - select the Sugar desktop in the gdm3 greeter, and login.
> 
> When reporting any issues, please identify this configuration as
> Ubuntu 20.04 Focal daily build with @quozl's package repository.
> 
> This is all Python 3, but also supports Python 2 activities.  I've
> also mixed version Python 2 and Python 3 toolkit packages for Ubuntu
> 18.04 which help with packaging.  Let me know if interested.


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