Platform Team/Guide/Sweets Usage: Difference between revisions

Current limitations: PK on Gentoo is mostly uselss dueto USE flags
 
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  sudo yum install gnome-packagekit
  sudo yum install gnome-packagekit


Debian and Ubuntu specific instructons:
Debian and Ubuntu (starting from 11.10) based distributions specific instructions:
 
sudo apt-get install gnome-packagekit
 
Ubuntu (before 11.10) based distributions specific instructions:
 
  sudo apt-get install packagekit-gnome
  sudo apt-get install packagekit-gnome


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=== Install ===
=== Install ===


Type in Terminal activity, or any other terminal:
Enter in the Terminal activity, or any other terminal:


  wget http://download.sugarlabs.org/sweets/sweets/installer.sh
  wget http://download.sugarlabs.org/sweets/sweets/installer.sh
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Relogin from X session to take into account the new PATH environment variable value.
Relogin from X session to take into account the new PATH environment variable value.


Besides, {{Code|sweets}} might be run from the [[Platform_Team/Guide/Sweets_Packaging#Run_Sweets_from_sources|sources]].
Alternatively, {{Code|sweets}} might be run from the [[Platform_Team/Guide/Sweets_Packaging#Run_Sweets_from_sources|sources]].


=== Upgrade ===
=== Upgrade ===


Type in Terminal activity, or any other terminal:
Enter in the Terminal activity, or any other terminal:


  sweets upgrade
  sweets upgrade
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== Current limitations ==
== Current limitations ==


* For now, {{Code|sweets}} knows only enough about the glucose dependencies to install them from native packages in Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, openSUSE, and Gentoo.
* For now, {{Code|sweets}} knows only enough about the glucose dependencies to install them from native packages in Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, openSUSE.
* Activities can't reuse sweets benefits.
* Activities can't reuse sweets benefits.