[sugar] Trying to build sugar on ubuntu dapper

[Greg Dekoenigsberg]

Have you tried running "sugar-jhbuild build base"?

Actually, the steps I use for FC6 may work for Ubuntu:

http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/02/23/building-the-xo-introducing-sugar/

--g

On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> Is there anyone available to help me get started building Sugar on
> ubuntu dapper? So far I haven't been able to manage to "sudo apt-get
> install python-avahi"; if I try this, I always get "E: Couldn't find
> package python-avahi". All other packages from
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_on_Ubuntu_Linux installed okay (after
> messing with /etc/apt/sources.list; I don't really know what this is,
> but pasting output from the source-o-matic in the front made other
> problems go away).
>
> If I ignore this, running ./sugar-jhbuild after the git-clone command
> gives me this:
>
> """
> Checking dependencies...
> Missing dependencies:
>
>   avahi (python module)
>   rsvg (python module)
>   wnck (python module)
>   glib-2.0 2.12
>   gtk+-2.0 2.10
>   pygtk-2.0 2.10
>   pycairo 1.2
>   dbus-1 1.0
>   dbus-python 0.80
>
> Install the packages from your distribution which provides these
> functionalities, including the development package for libraries.
> If one or more of the packages (and versions) are not provided by your
> distribution you can build them from sources, using this command:
>   sugar-jhbuild build-base
> """
>
> Following the advice in that message and running the latter command
> fails building many packages including fontconfig, hence cairo, and
> many others. Details at request; I'll happily take this offline but
> I've got to start somewhere...
>
>

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