How To Install sugar-etoys-activity on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sugar-etoys-activity on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is sugar-etoys-activity
sugar-etoys-activity is:
Sugar Learning Platform promotes collaborative learning through Sugar Activities that encourage critical thinking, the heart of a quality education. Designed from the ground up especially for children, Sugar offers an alternative to traditional “office-desktop” software.
Learner applications in Sugar are called Activities. They are software packages that automatically save your work - producing specific instances of the Activity that can be resumed at a later time. Many Activities support learner collaboration, where multiple learners may be invited to join a collective Activity session.
Squeak Etoys was inspired by LOGO, PARC-Smalltalk, Hypercard, and starLOGO. It is a media-rich authoring environment with a simple, powerful scripted object model for many kinds of objects created by end-users. It includes 2D and 3D graphics, images, text, particles, presentations, web-pages, videos, sound and MIDI, etc. It includes the ability to share desktops with other Etoy users in real-time, so many forms of immersive mentoring and play can be done over the Internet.
The Etoys activity embeds Squeak Etoys into Sugar.
There are three methods to install sugar-etoys-activity on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install sugar-etoys-activity Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sugar-etoys-activity using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sugar-etoys-activity
Install sugar-etoys-activity Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sugar-etoys-activity using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sugar-etoys-activity
Install sugar-etoys-activity Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install sugar-etoys-activity using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sugar-etoys-activity
How To Uninstall sugar-etoys-activity on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the sugar-etoys-activity package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sugar-etoys-activity
Uninstall sugar-etoys-activity And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sugar-etoys-activity and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sugar-etoys-activity
Remove sugar-etoys-activity Configurations and Data
To remove sugar-etoys-activity configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sugar-etoys-activity
Remove sugar-etoys-activity configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sugar-etoys-activity configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sugar-etoys-activity
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sugar-etoys-activity package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
