Difference between revisions of "Development Team/Jhbuild/Ubuntu"

Latest revision as of 20:22, 12 July 2011

Supported versions

Ubuntu is currently unsupported because all recent versions lack at least one important package (python-xpcom).

Prerequisites

In order to install sugar-jhbuild, you need git-core and subversion.

Installing dependencies

After installing and updating sugar-jhbuild according to the common instructions, you can use this invocation to install all dependencies automatically:

./sugar-jhbuild depscheck -s | sudo xargs aptitude -y install

Significant bugs

broken D-Bus security configuration that prevents sugar-emulator from working (because Xephyr cannot work).
sugar-emulator doesn't work properly if the X server uses evdev as keyboard driver (because of a Xephyr bug).
python-xpcom missing (and thus Browse cannot work)

Potential pitfalls

gtk-recordmydesktop may prevent sugar-emulator from working properly

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 == Supported versions ==
-Currently 8.10 and 8.10 using Python 2.5 are supported. 8.10 using Python 2.6 will be supported once [https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python2.6/+bug/338395 Ubuntu bug #338395] is fixed.
-== Prerequites ==
+'''Ubuntu is currently unsupported''' because all recent versions lack at least one important package ([https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/480407/+index python-xpcom]).
-In order to install sugar-jhbuild, you need git-core and svn.
+== Prerequisites ==
+In order to install sugar-jhbuild, you need git-core and subversion.
 == Installing dependencies ==
 After installing and updating sugar-jhbuild according to the [[../|common instructions]], you can use this invocation to install all dependencies automatically:
-./sugar-jhbuild depscheck -s | sudo xargs aptitude -y install
+ ./sugar-jhbuild depscheck -s | sudo xargs aptitude -y install
+== Significant bugs ==
+* [https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/325706 broken D-Bus security configuration] that prevents sugar-emulator from working (because Xephyr cannot work).
+* [http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19365 sugar-emulator doesn't work properly if the X server uses evdev as keyboard driver] (because of a Xephyr bug).
+* [https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/480407/+index python-xpcom missing] (and thus Browse cannot work)
-== Fixing RPATH ==
+== Potential pitfalls ==
-To work around a bug in the Gnome Python bindings, you need to issue the following commands after installing all dependencies:
- sudo aptitude install chrpath
+* gtk-recordmydesktop may prevent sugar-emulator from working properly
- find /usr/lib/python-support/python-gnome2/python2.5/gtk-2.0 -name "*.so" | sudo xargs chrpath -d