[Sugar-devel] Advice needed on sugar-runner

[James Cameron]

Make sure the typelib has been installed correctly.  Perhaps the install steps are also bit rot.

Compare the steps against the SugarExt typelib installed by the sugar-toolkit-gtk3 package.

In particular, I seem to recall an introspection scanner step is required, but not sure if it is part of "make install" or if it fails if the tool is not installed.

On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 09:47:36AM -0600, James Simmons wrote:
> I've been preparing an old computer I just replaced as a gift for a bright
> eight year old boy and his older brother. It will run Fedora 39. In addition to
> the XFCE environment I want to give him a Sugar environment with Activities.
> 
> In the process of setting this up I discovered that some of the Activities I
> wrote years ago have succumbed to bit rot and needed updating. I was able to do
> this, but I was disappointed to find that I could not use sugar-runner to run
> the Sugar environment in a window because it had not been maintained.
> 
> I thought I'd take a stab at getting sugar-runner working. I checked out the
> project, installed all the dependencies autogen.sh asked for, updated the
> scripts to use python3, then ran what looked to be a successful make and sudo
> make install. Then I tried to run
> 
> sugar-runner
> 
> and I got these Python errors:
> 
> jamessimmons at unknownF4390913EB01:~$ sugar-runner
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/local/bin/sugar-runner", line 28, in <module>
>     gi.require_version('SugarRunner', '1.0')
>   File "/usr/lib64/python3.12/site-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 126, in
> require_version
>     raise ValueError('Namespace %s not available' % namespace)
> ValueError: Namespace SugarRunner not available
> 
> At this point I'm stuck. If any of you have any suggestions on how to proceed
> I'd love to hear them.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> James Simmons
> 

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