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== Supported versions ==
== Supported versions ==
Currently squeeze (testing) and sid (unstable) are supported.
Currently Wheezy (testing) and Sid (unstable) are supported.
 
Squeeze isn't supported any more because Sugar is in the progress of migrating to GTK 3 / Gnome 3, requiring bleeding edge versions of a couple of components.


== Prerequisites ==
== Prerequisites ==
In order to install sugar-jhbuild, you need to install git-core, lsb-release, python and subversion:
In order to install sugar-jhbuild, you need to install git-core, lsb-release, python and subversion:
  aptitude install git-core lsb-release python subversion
  sudo aptitude install git-core lsb-release python subversion pkg-config


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


== Fixing RPATH ==
== Known issues ==
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
In order to use [[Activities/Read|Read]], you will need gir1.2-evince-3.0 >= 3.3.90-1, currently only available in [http://wiki.debian.org/DebianExperimental Debian experimental].
find /usr/lib/pyshared/python2.*/gtk-2.0 -name "*.so" | sudo xargs chrpath -d
sudo apt-get install -t experimental gir1.2-evince-3.0 libevview3-3

Latest revision as of 04:46, 3 July 2021

Supported versions

Currently Wheezy (testing) and Sid (unstable) are supported.

Squeeze isn't supported any more because Sugar is in the progress of migrating to GTK 3 / Gnome 3, requiring bleeding edge versions of a couple of components.

Prerequisites

In order to install sugar-jhbuild, you need to install git-core, lsb-release, python and subversion:

sudo aptitude install git-core lsb-release python subversion pkg-config

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

Known issues

In order to use Read, you will need gir1.2-evince-3.0 >= 3.3.90-1, currently only available in Debian experimental.

sudo apt-get install -t experimental gir1.2-evince-3.0 libevview3-3