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| + | This is a short guide to show how you can contribute with the Sugar project in a simple way, without dealing with [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Jhbuild sugar-jhbuild], installing libraries and compiling weird things. You can work directly on a Stick (USB Pen Drive). Even more, if you want to work ''faster'' on your real computer you can run it inside a Virtual Machine with [http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Main_Page qemu-kvm] | ||
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| + | In the below sections are shown the steps that you have to follow to get a complete working Virtual Machine with all the necessary things to start collaborating. | ||
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| + | ''NOTE: I made this guide on Fedora 17 and if you are using another distro maybe the name of the packages change'' | ||
= Packages needed = | = Packages needed = | ||
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| + | These are the packages needed to run the Virtual Machine with qemu-kvm | ||
sudo yum install qemu qemu-kvm qemu-kvm-tools | sudo yum install qemu qemu-kvm qemu-kvm-tools | ||
| − | = Sugar On A Stick | + | = Sugar On A Stick Image = |
| − | * | + | This is the image (32-bits) that you should download to install it on the Virtual Machine. |
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| + | * http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/releases/17/Spins/i686/Fedora-17-i686-Live-SoaS.iso | ||
| − | = | + | = Booting Sugar from the USB on a Virtual Machine = |
* Create the virtual hard disk drive: | * Create the virtual hard disk drive: | ||
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* Run the virtual machine | * Run the virtual machine | ||
| − | qemu-kvm -m 1024 | + | qemu-kvm -hda qcow2 sugar-on-a-stick.qcow2 -m 1024 -cdrom Fedora-17-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso -boot d |
= Installing Sugar on the hard drive = | = Installing Sugar on the hard drive = | ||
| − | * [[ | + | * After running the last command and setting up your name you will be on Sugar itself |
| + | * Open Terminal Activity and click on the '''Become root''' icon or type ''su -'' | ||
| + | * Run this command to lunch the installer | ||
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| + | liveinst | ||
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| + | * When the installer opens and you reach the partitioning part you have to select to do it manually and create '''just one''' partition with the full space available (4Gb) because otherwise the installer will tell you there is no sufficient space to copy the files required by Fedora 17 | ||
| + | * Follow the installation instruction and finally reboot the Virtual Machine | ||
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| + | = Running Sugar from the Virtual Machine = | ||
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| + | qemu-kvm -hda sugar-on-a-stick.qcow2 -m 1024 -k es | ||
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| + | = Install useful packages = | ||
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| + | sudo yum install git vim emacs | ||
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| + | <div style="background-color:#a0ff93; border:1px solid #cdf; padding:6px 14px;"> | ||
| + | ''NOTE: add some information here about how to edit a file and create a patch, maybe downloading the git repo or the simplest case, editing the original activity directly. Add some useful links to code review o those kind of things'' | ||
| + | </div> | ||
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| + | = References = | ||
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| + | * [[Tutorials/Installation/Install with liveinst]] | ||
| + | * [[Sugar_on_a_Stick/Downloads]] | ||
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| + | [[Category:Sugar_on_a_Stick]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Developer]] | ||
Latest revision as of 13:51, 9 July 2012
This is a short guide to show how you can contribute with the Sugar project in a simple way, without dealing with sugar-jhbuild, installing libraries and compiling weird things. You can work directly on a Stick (USB Pen Drive). Even more, if you want to work faster on your real computer you can run it inside a Virtual Machine with qemu-kvm
In the below sections are shown the steps that you have to follow to get a complete working Virtual Machine with all the necessary things to start collaborating.
NOTE: I made this guide on Fedora 17 and if you are using another distro maybe the name of the packages change
Packages needed
These are the packages needed to run the Virtual Machine with qemu-kvm
sudo yum install qemu qemu-kvm qemu-kvm-tools
Sugar On A Stick Image
This is the image (32-bits) that you should download to install it on the Virtual Machine.
Booting Sugar from the USB on a Virtual Machine
- Create the virtual hard disk drive:
qemu-img create -f qcow2 sugar-on-a-stick.qcow2 4G
- Run the virtual machine
qemu-kvm -hda qcow2 sugar-on-a-stick.qcow2 -m 1024 -cdrom Fedora-17-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso -boot d
Installing Sugar on the hard drive
- After running the last command and setting up your name you will be on Sugar itself
- Open Terminal Activity and click on the Become root icon or type su -
- Run this command to lunch the installer
liveinst
- When the installer opens and you reach the partitioning part you have to select to do it manually and create just one partition with the full space available (4Gb) because otherwise the installer will tell you there is no sufficient space to copy the files required by Fedora 17
- Follow the installation instruction and finally reboot the Virtual Machine
Running Sugar from the Virtual Machine
qemu-kvm -hda sugar-on-a-stick.qcow2 -m 1024 -k es
Install useful packages
sudo yum install git vim emacs
NOTE: add some information here about how to edit a file and create a patch, maybe downloading the git repo or the simplest case, editing the original activity directly. Add some useful links to code review o those kind of things