SUGAR FOR RASPBIAN


Welcome to the Sugar for Raspbian site. Here you will find all you need to get started with Sugar for Raspbian.

Introduction

Raspbian is a derivative of Debian for the Raspberry Pi.

In relation to Sugar, Raspbian is a downstream distribution project that can be used to run Sugar.

Using Sugar 0.110 on Raspbian

To use Sugar in Raspbian is almost the same as using it in Debian:

  • install Raspbian Jessie in the usual way,
  • change /etc/apt/sources.list to use the Stretch testing release,
sudo sed -i 's/jessie/stretch/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
  • update the package lists,
sudo apt update
  • upgrade all packages,
sudo apt dist-upgrade,
  • install Sugar,
sudo apt install sucrose
  • log out,
  • log in with the Sugar desktop selected.

Pre-built Images

There are no pre-built images for Raspbian with Sugar.

Report issues to https://github.com/sugarlabs/rpi23-gen-image

Using Sugar Activities without Sugar Desktop

Debian packaging of Sugar Activities adds them to the Education menu, so they can be used from desktops other than Sugar.

Using Sugar on a headless Raspberry Pi

You have a Raspberry Pi but you've run out of keyboards, mice, and HDMI displays. Use the 'net.

  • On the Raspberry Pi:
sudo apt install xrdp
adduser guest
echo sugar >> /home/guest/.xsession
  • On your other computer:
rdesktop -g 1200x900 -u guest -p guest IP

See Connecting to a remote desktop on the Raspberry Pi.

Turtle Art/Blocks

  • You can download Activities/Turtle Art and use it on the normal desktop. You can either download it through the package manager (and get version 98):
sudo apt-get install sugar-turtleart-activity

Turtle art will be added to the Education section of the apps menu.

  • Or you could get the latest version using git:
git clone https://github.com/sugarlabs/activity-turtleart-gtk2.git turtleart
cd turtleart
  • And use the following to start Turtle Art:
python turtleblocks.py

NOTE: you may encounter an error related to the summary field in the activity.info. If so, open the activity/activity.info file and move the summary field from the bottom of the file, to being the line below the title field

Sugarizer

Sugarizer is a HTML5 version of Sugar. It has a basic journal and full web activity support.

  • You can configure Sugarizer to auto-start by setting your ~/.xinitrc to:
epiphany server.sugarizer.org

(Note: there are a few issues with the browser icons... but sugarizer works well)

Alternatively, you can download the Sugarizer client zip and have it locally on your pi.