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Revision as of 12:57, 31 August 2006

One of the easiest ways to install Sugar is to use sugar-jhbuild.

Sugar-jhbuild will automatically download the latest of sugar's dependencies as well as sugar itself directly from their source repositories, rather than relying on source packages that may have become stale. Below are generic instructions on how to use sugar-jhbuild to get up and running with Sugar.

Checkout sugar-jhbuild

git clone git://dev.laptop.org/sugar-jhbuild

On Ubuntu (and probably Debian): you may have to do "update-alternatives --config git" to make git point to git-scm (instead of the unrelated gitfm command).

Build sugar and its dependencies

cd sugar-jhbuild
./sugar-jhbuild build

Run Sugar

./sugar-jhbuild run

Customize

To customize the build create a configuration file, named .olpc.jhbuildrc, in your home directory.

Write access to the repositories

If you have write access to the repositories you can add:

repos['gnome.org'] = ':ext:marco@cvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome'
repos['mozilla.org'] = ':ext:marco%gnome.org@cvs.mozilla.org:/cvsroot'
repos['git.laptop.org'] = 'git+ssh://dev.laptop.org/git/artwork'

Notes

sugar-jhbuild is still in early development. In particular, dependencies detection will be improved. It needs a lot of testing, so give it a try and report issues!

External links

JHBuild manual

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   git clone git://dev.laptop.org/sugar-jhbuild
-On Ubuntu (and probably Debian): make sure to do "update-alternatives --config git" to make this command work (jhbuild also depends on "git" pointing to the right thing)
+On Ubuntu (and probably Debian): you may have to do "update-alternatives --config git" to make git point to git-scm (instead of the unrelated gitfm command).
 ==Build sugar and its dependencies==