[Sugar-devel] Building+Running on Ubuntu 18

[Alan W Szlosek Jr]

Hi all! I'm responding with an update and some thanks for James...

James, your "~quozl" deb package repo worked great with Ubuntu 20.04. It
allowed me to install newer Sugar on a Dell Mini 1012 laptop for my
daughter to play with. So thanks again!

I've also had success building Sugar from source using the "v.0117" git tag
you mentioned. I have another laptop with a 32bit processor so I've been
building on Debian 10.4 and Ubuntu 18 (since 20.04 doesn't run on 32bit
machines). Using what I've found in the sugar-live-build repo, I finally
have a build script that works. My gist for building under Debian is here:
https://gist.github.com/alanszlosek/8eb03f5a3915e1e48fee61531e369355

I did find a very odd difference between Debian and Ubuntu that I felt
important to point out ....

On my Debian build, when Sugar starts up and "takes inventory" of the
installed activities, it expects "locale/en_US.UTF-8" to exist in each
activity folder. On Ubuntu 18, the encoding isn't part of the expected
path, so it only looks for "locale/en_US" which seems correct.

Any idea what's going on here?

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 8:17 PM James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> G'day Alan,
>
> I don't know if HEAD of the four repositories will work together at
> the moment.  I only make sure of that during release.  I'm unaware of
> anyone else making that check for me.  0.117 was the most recent
> release on 17th March.  There's a v0.117 tag in each repository.
>
> My guess is that a required dependency is missing.  We don't have a
> complete list of dependencies in the source, but downstream packagers
> do have complete lists.
>
> Check shell.log again after stopping the Jarabe process, or a reboot.
> The logs are buffered.
>
> Check also datastore.log after allowing time for the Datastore process
> to timeout, or a reboot.
>
> If you had previously installed the Ubuntu 18 package sucrose, then
> you will have Python 2 dependencies for Sugar and Datastore.  These
> are insufficient for 0.117 as it builds with Python 3.  I was able to
> build on Ubuntu 18 but I needed to make custom builds of several of
> the dependencies that weren't available.  I suggest Ubuntu 20.04,
> using my packages;
>
> 1.  add this to /etc/apt/sources.list
>
>     deb [trusted=yes arch=amd64] http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/.us focal
> main
>
> 2.  sudo apt update
>
> 3.  sudo apt install olpc-ubuntu-sugar
>
>
> On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 07:20:35AM -0400, Alan W Szlosek Jr wrote:
> > I've checked out, built and installed sugar (all 4 repos: sugar,
> datastore,
> > artwork, toolkit) on Ubuntu 18. But when I log in to sugar I only see a
> mouse
> > cursor. I found the following in ~/.sugar/default/logs/shell.log
> >
> > 1589454823.968838 DEBUG root: STARTUP: Starting the shell
> > Gdk-Message: 07:14:00.578: metacity: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource
> temporarily
> > unavailable) on X server :1.
> >
> > Where do I go from here and how can I help? I had previously installed
> sucrose
> > on this machine, so maybe something older is interfering.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your guidance. Take care!
> >
> > --
> > Alan Szlosek
>
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>
> --
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.netrek.org/
>


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Alan Szlosek
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