Sugar on Gentoo
If you want build sugar by yourself, use sugar-jhbuild. Otherwise use this overlay.
Requirements
Overlay demands follow steps
- at first setup overlay in layman
layman --add sugar
- if you use stable profiles (x86 and amd64) change your package.keywords
cat <where_your_overlay_is>/profiles/<release>/package.keywords >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
- if you use stable portage (before 2.2) and do not want faults in the middle of building process due to bad USE dependencies, change your package.use
cat <where_your_overlay_is>/profiles/<release>/package.use >> /etc/portage/package.use
Installation
NOTE: If you've changed package.use file use "-uDN" flags with follow commands.
To install core sugar components (services, window manager, etc.)
emerge glucose
To install core activities
emerge fructose
To install non-core activities
emerge honey
Runtime environment
To use telepathy-salut connection, start avahi
/etc/init.d/avahi-daemon start
To use jabber connection, configure jabber server in accordance with these instructions.
Packages
Overlay was built and run on x86 and amd64(x86_64) platforms
Sugar packages are being built by jhconvert and follow its matrix of package versions.