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== Supported versions ==
 
== Supported versions ==
Currently squeeze (testing) and sid (unstable) are supported.
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Currently Wheezy (testing) and Sid (unstable) are supported.
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Squeeze isn't supported any more because Sugar is in the progress of migrating to GTK 3 / Gnome 3, requiring bleeding edge versions of a couple of components.
  
 
== Prerequisites ==
 
== Prerequisites ==
 
In order to install sugar-jhbuild, you need to install git-core, lsb-release, python and subversion:
 
In order to install sugar-jhbuild, you need to install git-core, lsb-release, python and subversion:
  aptitude install git-core lsb-release python subversion
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  sudo aptitude install git-core lsb-release python subversion pkg-config
  
 
== Installing dependencies ==
 
== Installing dependencies ==
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  ./sugar-jhbuild depscheck -s | sudo xargs aptitude -y install
 
  ./sugar-jhbuild depscheck -s | sudo xargs aptitude -y install
  
== Fixing RPATH ==
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== Known issues ==
To work around a bug in the Gnome Python bindings, you need to issue the following commands after installing all dependencies:
 
  
sudo aptitude install chrpath
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In order to use [[Activities/Read|Read]], you will need gir1.2-evince-3.0 >= 3.3.90-1, currently only available in [http://wiki.debian.org/DebianExperimental Debian experimental].
find /usr/lib/pyshared/python2.*/gtk-2.0 -name "*.so" | sudo xargs chrpath -d
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sudo apt-get install -t experimental gir1.2-evince-3.0 libevview3-3

Latest revision as of 04:46, 3 July 2021

Supported versions

Currently Wheezy (testing) and Sid (unstable) are supported.

Squeeze isn't supported any more because Sugar is in the progress of migrating to GTK 3 / Gnome 3, requiring bleeding edge versions of a couple of components.

Prerequisites

In order to install sugar-jhbuild, you need to install git-core, lsb-release, python and subversion:

sudo aptitude install git-core lsb-release python subversion pkg-config

Installing dependencies

After installing and updating sugar-jhbuild according to the common instructions, you can use this invocation to install all dependencies automatically:

./sugar-jhbuild depscheck -s | sudo xargs aptitude -y install

Known issues

In order to use Read, you will need gir1.2-evince-3.0 >= 3.3.90-1, currently only available in Debian experimental.

sudo apt-get install -t experimental gir1.2-evince-3.0 libevview3-3