Gentoo

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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.

Contacts

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