[sugar] sugar-jhbuild changes

[Mike Hunter]

On Feb 01 at 10:28, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 10:11 -0500, Mike Hunter wrote:
[snip]
> > I've got a fresh Ubuntu build and I'm going to give these instructions a
> > whirl.  I'll let you know how it goes.
> > 
> > Are the sugar-jhbuild commands supposed to be executed as root or as a
> > regular user?
> 
> regular user is OK

Thanks.

> > Also, do your instructions here supersede these instructions:
> > 
> > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_with_sugar-jhbuild
> > 
> 
> These are up to date. So you should follow these. (I made some changes
> to the process after my mail to the list)

Thanks.  I've already started with just the sanitycheck, but I see that
that's part of the regular build...

> > and these?
> > 
> > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_on_Ubuntu_Linux
> > 
> > Or do they supersede them depending on how my install goes, perhaps?  :)
> 
> These should be updated yeah. I'd hope we can mostly avoid distribution
> specific instructions now, actually.

An admirable goal!  :)

> Let me know how it goes.

I've gotten past most of the sanity check with standard apt-get /
synaptic cherry-picking, but I'm stuck on python.  Ubuntu seems to
default to python 2.4.  I installed python 2.5, but I see the sanity
check doing `python -V` and it's failing because of this:

% ls -l /usr/bin/python*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 2007-01-31 18:23 /usr/bin/python -> python2.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1019680 2006-10-11 17:52 /usr/bin/python2.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1145032 2006-10-06 11:23 /usr/bin/python2.5
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    1276 2006-10-06 11:23 /usr/bin/python2.5-config
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3031632 2006-10-06 11:13 /usr/bin/python2.5-dbg

This could be considered an ubuntu-specific problem, but do you have any
suggestions on how to proceed?  I'm trying hard to build this server
without my usual dirty simlink hacknig :)  Should I uninstall python
2.4?  (I have a feeling ubuntu's not going to like that).  Is there a
way I could give sugar a hint about the non-standard python 2.5 path?

Thanks,

Mike

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