[sugar] Installing Sugar on Ubuntu 6.06 Linux.

[Dan Williams]

On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 17:14 +0200, Osmo Maatta wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I just installed Sugar on my Ubuntu Linux desktop. 
> 
> I encountered following issues:
> 
> When running
> $ cd /home/moma/sugar-jhbuild/
> $ ./sugar-jhbuild
> 
> 
> 1)  Error: Cannot create directory `/home/ruan'. Permission denied.
> (hard coded directory name). 

Where is that directory hard-coded?  Did you copy the sugar-jhbuild
installation from somebody else's machine without re-running autogen.sh?
Obviously that's not going to work if you just copy it when it's already
been configured.

Try doing a fresh git pull and see if that makes it work.

Dan

> make   install
> Making install in src
> make[1]: Entering directory
> `/home/moma/sugar-jhbuild/source/matchbox-window-manager/src'
> make[2]: Entering directory
> `/home/moma/sugar-jhbuild/source/matchbox-window-manager/src' 
> test -z "/home/ruan/sugar/sugar-jhbuild/build/bin" || mkdir -p --
> "/home/ruan/sugar/sugar-jhbuild/build/bin"
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/home/ruan': Permission denied
> make[2]: *** [install-binPROGRAMS] Error 1 
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/home/moma/sugar-jhbuild/source/matchbox-window-manager/src'
> make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/moma/sugar-jhbuild/source/matchbox-window-manager/src' 
> make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> *** error during stage install of matchbox-window-manager: Error
> running make   install *** [9/15]
> 
> 
>   [1] rerun stage install
>   [2] ignore error and continue to done 
>   [3] give up on module
>   [4] start shell
> choice:
> -----
> 
> Notice that my home directory is in /home/moma/.
> 
> I solved this problem by creating a temporary "/home/ruan" directory.
> 
> $ sudo mkdir /home/ruan 
> $ sudo chmod 777 /home/ruan
> 
> And it compiled and installed OK. 
> It put many files in "/home/ruan".
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> 
> 2)   error during stage configure of
> matchbox-window-manager:....[9/15]
> 
> XFixesShowCursor  error...
> 
> I got this error message several time. 
> 
> I downloaded and installed newer libxfixes3 and libxfixes-dev from 
> http://packages.ubuntulinux.org/edgy/libdevel/libxfixes-dev  
> Actually these packages belong to next version of Ubuntu (Edgy Eft).
> 
> But those packages caused many other errors.  So I had to remove them
> and download / re-install the original Ubuntu Dapper packages from 
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=libxfixes&searchon=names&subword=1&version=dapper&release=all
> 
> $ dpkg -i --force-all *.deb
> 
> This obviously the same as 
> $ sudo apt-get install --reinstall libxfixes-dev  libxfixes3
> 
> And Sugar was happy. It compiled and installed OK. 
> At the moment, I have no explanation why it worked after
> re-installation of those packages.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> 
> 3) Running Sugar:
> I copied all files from (the hard-coded) location
> /home/ruan/sugar/sugar-jhbuild/ 
> to my working area
> /home/moma/sugar-jhbuild/
> 
> $ cd /home/moma/sugar-jhbuild
> $ cp -r /home/ruan/sugar/sugar-jhbuild/* . 
> 
> It copied a "build" directory.
> ----
> 
> How to run Sugar ?
> 
> $ cd /home/moma/sugar-jhbuild
> $ ./sugar-jhbuild run
> 
> It shows me this picture:  http://bildr.no/view/9288  (a screenshot)
> The gecko browser is working well.
> 
> Is this the entire Sugar?
> What else should I see in the Sugar sreen ?
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> 
> Many thanks,
>   // moma
> 
> This distro is:
> 
> $ uname -a
> Linux moma-desktop 2.6.15-23-386 #1 PREEMPT Tue May 23 13:49:40 UTC
> 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
> 
> $ cat /etc/*release*
> DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
> DISTRIB_RELEASE= 6.06
> DISTRIB_CODENAME=dapper
> DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS"
> 
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