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| == Supported versions == | | == Supported versions == |
− | ===9.04===
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− | Jaunty (9.04) has [http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/310 a broken D-Bus security configuration] that prevents sugar-emulator from working (because Xephyr cannot work).
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− | On both versions [http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/342 sugar-emulator doesn't work properly if the X server uses evdev as keyboard driver] (because of a Xephyr bug).
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− | To get sugar to work type at the terminal
| + | '''Ubuntu is currently unsupported''' because all recent versions lack at least one important package ([https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/480407/+index python-xpcom]). |
− | DISPLAY=:0 ./sugar-jhbuild run
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− | ::This came from the very helpful '''sdziallas''' on the IRC.
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− | ===8.10===
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− | Currently intrepid (8.10) is supported.
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− | == Prerequites == | + | == Prerequisites == |
− | In order to install sugar-jhbuild, you need git-core and svn. | + | |
| + | In order to install sugar-jhbuild, you need git-core and subversion. |
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| == Installing dependencies == | | == Installing dependencies == |
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| After installing and updating sugar-jhbuild according to the [[../|common instructions]], you can use this invocation to install all dependencies automatically: | | After installing and updating sugar-jhbuild according to the [[../|common instructions]], you can use this invocation to install all dependencies automatically: |
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| ./sugar-jhbuild depscheck -s | sudo xargs aptitude -y install | | ./sugar-jhbuild depscheck -s | sudo xargs aptitude -y install |
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− | == Fixing RPATH == | + | == Significant bugs == |
− | To work around a bug in the Gnome Python bindings, you need to issue the following commands after installing all dependencies:
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− | sudo aptitude install chrpath
| + | * [https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/325706 broken D-Bus security configuration] that prevents sugar-emulator from working (because Xephyr cannot work). |
− | find /usr/lib/python-support/python-gnome2/python2.5/gtk-2.0 \
| + | * [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). |
− | /usr/lib/python-support/python-gconf/python2.5/gtk-2.0 \
| + | * [https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/480407/+index python-xpcom missing] (and thus Browse cannot work) |
− | -name "*.so" | sudo xargs chrpath -d
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− | == PenguinTV == | + | == Potential pitfalls == |
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− | You may have some issues with penguintv on Ubuntu, just interrupt the pull with a CTRL+C, open a shell, repeat the command manually, and accept the certificate permanently.
| + | * gtk-recordmydesktop may prevent sugar-emulator from working properly |