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Installing Sugar on WSL #956

Closed nikkuAg closed 2 years ago

nikkuAg commented 2 years ago

Is it possible to install sugar on wsl with Ubuntu 18.04.

If possible what step to follow after installation.

chimosky commented 2 years ago

It might be possible but I haven't tried, maybe something you might want to try and write about?

quozl commented 2 years ago

Once you have Ubuntu 18.04 running, yes, installing Sugar is possible. It doesn't make much[^1] difference if you have Ubuntu 18.04 running on native CPU, hypervisor, or Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.

[^1]: Some Sugar features, such as wireless connections, battery management, mouse position tracking or gesture recognition, are only available on a native CPU, but that's only important if you are developing those features.

You can read our installing on Ubuntu 18.04 steps. But that only gets you Sugar 0.112. Enough if your purpose is to try out Sugar, but not enough if you wish to develop for Sugar Labs.

Our article Setup a development environment describes three methods that may be of interest.