[Sugar-devel] Greetings from Sugar Labs DC!

[Jeff Elkner]

Hi James,

We'll run through this at our meetup next Thursday evening and let you
know how it goes.  Thanks!

Jeff

Let's work together to create a just and sustainable world!

On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 2:32 PM James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>
> Hello Christian,
>
> Please install Raspbian Buster, then;
>
> - add to /etc/apt/sources.list file this line;
>
> deb [arch=armhf trusted=yes] http://people.sugarlabs.org/~quozl/rb buster main
>
> - run "sudo apt update",
>
> - run "sudo apt install sucrose",
>
> - run "sudo apt install sugar-{abacus,browse,calculate,chart,chat,clock,develop,finance,findwords,fototoon,fractionbounce,gears,imageviewer,implode,jukebox,letters,log,maze,measure,memorize,moon,music-keyboard,paint,physics,pippy,poll,portfolio,read,record,speak,stopwatch,story,terminal,words,write}-activity"
>
> - choose Sugar for restart by adding a file
>
>   echo sugar > .xsession
>
> - restart the Raspberry pi.
>
> I've not tested in full, but in theory this will get you a working
> Raspberry Pi with Sugar using Raspbian Buster.
>
> The Debian image builder isn't working at the moment, and doesn't have
> a maintainer, but if someone does work on it the above package archive
> will help them finish the job.
>
> On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 06:42:43PM -0500, Christian Faris wrote:
> > Dear Sugar Labs Devel Community,
> >
> > My name is Christian “Chip” Faris and I am active with Sugar Labs DC. I am a
> > former student of Jeff Elkner and have good connections with Kevin Cole. I am
> > helping out a student who has a capstone project of helping Sugar Labs DC to
> > use Sugar on Debian Buster. The GitHub for installing Sugar on Debian Buster
> > has not updated in quite sometime. Since most of the hardware we have (mainly
> > raspberry pi 3B+ and 4) run Debian Buster, I wonder if there is a way to
> > install Sugar on Debian Buster as this will be a huge help with labs and events
> > for our elementary and early childhood education students.
> >
> > Thank you for reading and any help is greatly appreciated!
> >
> > Sincerely yours,
> >
> > Christian “Chip” Faris
> >
> > [1]christian.lee.faris at gmail.com
> >
> > [2]https://cfaris459.github.io/
> >
> > References:
> >
> > [1] mailto:christian.lee.faris at gmail.com
> > [2] https://cfaris459.github.io/
>
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>
> --
> James Cameron
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