: The sugar-jhbuild command is a Python script, so you need the Python interpreter.
: The sugar-jhbuild command is a Python script, so you need the Python interpreter.
; git
; git
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: To get the source code of sugar-jhbuild itself and many other Sugar packages you need the <tt>git</tt> command-line tool from the distributed version control system of the same name. In many distributions the minimal package you need to install is "git-core".
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: To get the source code of sugar-jhbuild itself and many other Sugar packages you need the <code>git</code> command-line tool from the distributed version control system of the same name. In many distributions the minimal package you need to install is "git-core".
; svn
; svn
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: A few packages (as of September 2009, only squeak) do not yet use git, and you need the <tt>svn</tt> command-line tool from the Subversion version control system to get their source code.
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: A few packages (as of January 2010, only squeak and part of etoys) do not use git, and you need the <code>svn</code> command-line tool from the Subversion version control system to get their source code.
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These should be enough to run sugar-jhbuild on a typical Linux or Mac installation. Running <tt>sugar-jhbuild depscheck</tt> (see below) will probably list dozens of additional required packages.
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These should be enough to run sugar-jhbuild itself on a typical Linux installation. Running <code>sugar-jhbuild depscheck</code> (see below) will probably list dozens of additional required packages.