Jeff,

Most, if not all, of the Sugar-specific bugs that are present in Debian should be fixed if you use the "0.112-3" (the 3 is critically important) Debian packages from the _unstable_ Debian repo. They have not yet been promoted to testing, and will likely not be included in Debian 10 when it is released, as it is late in the package freeze process.

So, you have a few options here...the easiest thing to do would be to run an entire "unstable" install of Debian, since you will get these packages by default, but otherwise, you have to configure Apt with the unstable repo, and then use package pinning. This is documented at https://serverfault.com/questions/371383/install-whitelist-of-packages-using-unstable-in-debian.

See https://packages.debian.org/buster/sucrose for a list of these packages, and https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable#Installation can explain how to enable the unstable apt repo on a stable or testing install.

This may also be of use https://serverfault.com/questions/22414/how-can-i-run-debian-stable-but-install-some-packages-from-testing


Jeff Elkner wrote on 5/15/19 9:54 AM:
Great to meet you (virtually), Alex and James.  I'm a high school /
community college teacher in Arlington, Virginia who was an early
member of the OLPC community here in the DC area.  I run Debian in my
classroom and would very much be interested in using the Sugar desktop
to work on that platform.  It doesn't currently seem to work.  I don't
have the capacity to fix it myself, but I can provide reliable testing
and feedback in an educational setting should that be of use to you.
I'm hoping to rejoin the Sugar community once it is in a state where
it can be used both in my classroom and on Raspberry Pi's.

Thanks!
Jeff Elkner
Arlington Career Center
Arlington, VA

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 12:39 PM Samson Goddy <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello Alex and James,

I guess you both miss this thread. Can you please guide Jeff on how to get 
started?



On Fri, May 10, 2019, 8:14 AM Jeff Elkner <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear Sugar Labs Devs,

I am a high school / community college computer science teacher in
Arlington Virginia who was an active member of the OLPC project for
years and who would like to rejoin the community.

I am convinced being able to run the Sugar desktop on the same
underlying OS (Debian) as Raspbian uses is the key to that working for
me.

I tried creating a basic buster install and then running:

$ sudo apt install sugar sucrose lightdm

The result is not a usable Sugar installation.  I am most eager to
participate as a tester, power user, and curriculum developer, but I
need to start with a working system.

Thanks!

Jeff Elkner


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