Gentoo

NOTE: overlay was moved to git.overlays.gentoo.org, please update your layman files

Sugar on Gentoo

If you want build sugar by yourself, use sugar-jhbuild. Otherwise use this overlay.

Requirements

Overlay demands follow steps

• at first setup overlay in layman

layman --add sugar --fetch --overlays http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sugaroverlay/layman.xml

• if you use stable profiles (x86 and amd64) change your package.keywords

cat <where_your_overlay_is>/profiles/package.keywords >> /etc/portage/package.keywords

• if you use stable portage (before 2.2) and do not want faults in the middle of building process due to bad USE dependencies, change your package.use

cat <where_your_overlay_is>/profiles/package.use >> /etc/portage/package.use

Installation

NOTE: If you've changed package.use file use "-uDN" flags with follow commands.

To install core sugar components (services, window manager, etc.)

emerge glucose

To install core activities

emerge fructose

To install non-core activities

emerge honey

Runtime environment

To use telepathy-salut connection, start avahi

/etc/init.d/avahi-daemon start

To use jabber connection, configure jabber server in accordance with these instrucions.

Packages

Overlay was built and run on x86 and amd64(x86_64) platforms

Sugar packages are being built by jhconvert and follow its matrix of package versions.

Resources

• Home page