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

Utkarsh Tiwari iamutkarshtiwari at gmail.com
Fri Dec 1 01:24:34 EST 2017


Hi,

I didn't get a chance to retry those fixes. Instead, I am using sugar-build
on my old Ubuntu 14.04 installation.

Regards,
Utkarsh Tiwari

On Fri 1 Dec, 2017, 6:19 AM James Cameron, <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> 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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> James Cameron
> http://quozl.netrek.org/
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