Using Sugar on Ubuntu
February 20, 2026 ยท View on GitHub
Ubuntu is a Debian-based Linux operating system, with Gnome as its default desktop environment. -- wikipedia.org
In relation to Sugar, Ubuntu is a downstream distribution project that can be used to run Sugar.
Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble Numbat)
Sugar 0.121 can be installed with the following commands:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install sucrose
- log out,
- log in with the Sugar desktop selected.
Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur)
Sugar 0.120 can be installed with the following commands:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install sucrose
- log out,
- log in with the Sugar desktop selected,
Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster)
Sugar 0.120 can be installed with the following commands:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install sucrose
- log out,
- log in with the Sugar desktop selected,
Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish)
Sugar 0.118 can be installed with the following commands:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install sucrose
- log out,
- log in with the Sugar desktop selected,
Known Problems:
- no datastore entries are created sugar-datastore #23, and;
- Browse does not visit web sites.