[Sugar-devel] Help with setting up sugar-build on Ubuntu 16.04

[James Cameron]

Any progress on this, Utkarsh?

On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 08:38:44PM +1100, James Cameron wrote:
> Yes, please do.  You faced at least two issues that you could add.  You may have faced others that you solved before asking?
> 
> The old page mentioned several issues with using sugar-build, but (a) we are not using sugar-build now, and (b) some of those issues won’t be relevant to downloading a live build, installing packages, or git clones.
> 
> Just don’t fall into the trap of documenting what others have already documented somewhere else.
> 
> > On 24 Nov 2017, at 7:02 pm, Utkarsh Tiwari <iamutkarshtiwari at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I agree but it would be also helpful if we could add a fix section (similar to the old developer.md page) for commonly faced issues while setting up the development environment. In this way newcomers can resolve the errors themselves. Let's see what others suggest.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Utkarsh Tiwari
> > 
> > On Fri, 24 Nov 2017 at 01:36 James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> > This has nothing to do with sugar-build.
> > 
> > Please include small errors in the body of mail so that your readers don’t have to reach out to a web browser to get them, and so that mail can be searched for keywords in the errors.
> > 
> > The error this time was "E: Unable to find a source package for sugar-datastore”, and then repeated for each module.
> > 
> > It will be caused by not having deb-src lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list file.  Add the lines, do an apt update, then try again.
> > 
> > Added new issue #126 to sugar-docs.
> > https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/issues/126
> > 
> > For discussion, I propose that the native build section be removed from the documentation, because it isn’t understood well enough, isn’t needed by most developers, and removing it is simpler than fixing it.
> > 
> > > On 24 Nov 2017, at 2:27 am, Utkarsh Tiwari <iamutkarshtiwari at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Thank you Glide for your suggestion. I tried running the instructions in su mode but still getting these issues - https://gist.github.com/iamutkarshtiwari/84742d622a1d221bd1c814ce98baa32e
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Utkarsh Tiwari
> > >
> > > On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 at 20:50 Glide <abdulsamadaliyu17 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hello there,
> > >
> > > From what i've seen in the logs and to the best of my knowledge, it seems you need to run as root, to gain root access, run su in your terminal.
> > >
> > > I hope this works for you.
> > >
> > > On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 3:56 PM, Utkarsh Tiwari <iamutkarshtiwari at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hello everyone,
> > >
> > > I am trying to setup sugar-build on my fresh Ubuntu 16.04 installation. I tried instructions mentioned in - https://developer.sugarlabs.org/dev-environment.md.html#native%20sugar but I seem to facing issues while trying to run - https://gist.github.com/iamutkarshtiwari/107558814db2c9ed57f081b9f353536b
> > >
> > > Here is the log - https://gist.github.com/iamutkarshtiwari/347a3f13dcfd1eeb0788dda38d95b0e4
> > >
> > > It would be helpful if someone could guide me if I am missing out something.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Utkarsh Tiwari
> > >
> > >
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