[sugar] trouble with Build

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 11:31 -0500, Ashlesha Shintre wrote:
> 
> Thanks for your response:  It worked when I commented out the CDROM
> drive from the sources.list file.
> 
> Now, however, I get a problem while building sugar:
> 
> When I issue the command   './sugar-jhbuild update'  from the
> sugar-jhbuild directory, I get the following error despite running the
> command as su. 
> 
> Error:
> 
> 'sugar-jhbuild: Can't create /etc/apt/sugar-jhbuild/build directory'

Looks like a permissions problem.  You need to be building sugar-jhbuild
in a directory where you can write to.

Dan

> 
> Regards,
> Ashlesha.
> On 04/03/07, Ryan Pavlik <abiryan at ryand.net> wrote:
>         Ashlesha Shintre wrote: 
>         > Hi,
>         >
>         > I m trying to install the Sugar development environment on
>         my laptop
>         > which has Ubuntu6.10 installed on it.  Upon issuing the
>         command:
>         >
>         > <mailto:sugar at laptop.org>sudo apt-get install
>         build-essential cvs
>         > docbook-utils subversion libgtk2.0-dev
>         libidl-dev    gnome-common
>         > gtk-doc-tools libxt-dev automake1.7 automake1.8 automake1.9
>         > python-gtk2-dev    python-avahi git-core cogito python-dev 
>         > avahi-utils    libgconf2-dev xserver-xephyr libgnome2-dev
>         > libmatchbox-dev python-cairo-dev    libtiff4-dev
>         python-gnome2-dev
>         > libxdamage-dev libxdamage1
>         libxcomposite-dev    libgnomeui-dev libtool 
>         > libfribidi-dev libgsf-1-dev libbz2-dev libwmf-dev
>         > libgstreamer0.10-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev
>         > libgnomeprintui2.2-dev    libenchant-dev libnspr-dev darcs
>         libxslt1.1
>         > libxslt1-dev firefox firefox-dev    libasound2-dev 
>         >
>         > as given on the
>         http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_on_Ubuntu_Linux
>         > website, I get a message, the last part of which I have
>         pasted here: 
>         >
>         >
>         > Get:21 http://security.ubuntu.com edgy-security/universe
>         > xserver-xephyr 1: 1.1.1-0ubuntu12.1 [1499kB]
>         > Media change: please insert the disc labeled 
>         >  'Ubuntu 6.10 _Edgy Eft_ - Release i386 (20061025)'
>         > in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter
>         >
>         > I have enabled the Universe and Multiuniverse repositories
>         on my machine.
>         > Any ideas? 
>         >
>         > Thanks,
>         > Ashlesha Shintre.
>         >
>         Either do what it says (insert the Edgy Eft CD) or remove the
>         CD-ROM
>         line from your /etc/apt/sources.list and run apt-get update
>         which will
>         force it to look online for the packages. 
>         
>         --
>         Ryan Pavlik
>         AbiWord Win32 Platform Maintainer, Art Lead: www.abisource.com
>         AbiWord Community Outreach Project:
>         www.cleardefinition.com/oss/abi/blog/
>         
>         "Optimism is the father that leads to achievement."
>         -- Helen Keller
>         
>         "The folder structure in a modern Linux distribution such as
>         Ubuntu
>         was largely inspired by the original UNIX foundations that
>         were 
>         created by men with large beards and sensible jumpers."
>         -- Jono Bacon, The Ubuntu Guide
>         
> 
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