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Latest revision as of 12:54, 13 January 2010
How to try out the latest version support prototype
Backup
If you've used Sugar before, it is highly recommended to create a backup of your data store as it will be updated on first startup and cannot be read by older versions of Sugar afterwards:
cp -a ~/.sugar/default/datastore ~/.sugar/default/datastore.v2
Prerequisites
You need to have sugar-jhbuild installed as usual. Make sure it's fully up-to-date and all dependencies are installed (./sugar-jhbuild depscheck).
Installation
Switch to the sugar-versionsupport JHBuild module set by replacing
moduleset = 'sugar'
with
moduleset = 'sugar-versionsupport'
in sugar-jhbuild/sugar.jhbuildrc.
Move away the old sources for the sugar, sugar-datastore and sugar-toolkit packages (JHBuild cannot switch between different git modules):
cd sugar-jhbuild
for pkg in sugar{,-datastore,-toolkit} ; do
mv "${pkg}" "${pkg}-upstream"
done
Get and build the new sources:
cd sugar-jhbuild
./sugar-jhbuild updateone sugar{,-datastore,-toolkit}
./sugar-jhbuild buildone sugar{,-datastore,-toolkit}
Usage
Run as usual:
cd sugar-jhbuild ./sugar-jhbuild run sugar-emulator --fullscreen
Please note that it's based on my VNC support branch, so instead of Xephyr you'll get a VNC viewer. You shouldn't notice much of a difference, with the exception of non-US keyboards working properly. To bring up the VNC menu press F8.