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== Supported versions ==
 
== Supported versions ==
Currently 8.10 and 8.10 using Python 2.5 are supported. 8.10 using Python 2.6 will be supported once [https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python2.6/+bug/338395 Ubuntu bug #338395] is fixed.
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== Prerequites ==
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'''Ubuntu is currently unsupported''' because all recent versions lack at least one important package ([https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/480407/+index python-xpcom]).
In order to install sugar-jhbuild, you need git-core and svn.
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== Prerequisites ==
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In order to install sugar-jhbuild, you need git-core and subversion.
    
== Installing dependencies ==
 
== Installing dependencies ==
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After installing and updating sugar-jhbuild according to the [[../|common instructions]], you can use this invocation to install all dependencies automatically:
 
After installing and updating sugar-jhbuild according to the [[../|common instructions]], you can use this invocation to install all dependencies automatically:
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./sugar-jhbuild depscheck -s | sudo xargs aptitude -y install
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./sugar-jhbuild depscheck -s | sudo xargs aptitude -y install
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== Significant bugs ==
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* [https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/325706 broken D-Bus security configuration] that prevents sugar-emulator from working (because Xephyr cannot work).
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* [http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19365 sugar-emulator doesn't work properly if the X server uses evdev as keyboard driver] (because of a Xephyr bug).
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* [https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/480407/+index python-xpcom missing] (and thus Browse cannot work)
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== Fixing RPATH ==
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== Potential pitfalls ==
To work around a bug in the Gnome Python bindings, you need to issue the following commands after installing all dependencies:
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sudo aptitude install chrpath
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* gtk-recordmydesktop may prevent sugar-emulator from working properly
find /usr/lib/python-support/python-gnome2/python2.5/gtk-2.0 -name "*.so" | sudo xargs chrpath -d
 
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