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== Supported versions ==
 
== Supported versions ==
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Currently Intrepid (8.10), Jaunty (9.04) and Karmic (9.10) are supported.
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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]).
    
== Prerequisites ==
 
== Prerequisites ==
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In order to install sugar-jhbuild, you need git-core and svn.
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In order to install sugar-jhbuild, you need git-core and subversion.
    
== 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
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== Fixing RPATH ==
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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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find /usr/lib/python-support/python-gnome2/python2.5/gtk-2.0 \
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    /usr/lib/python-support/python-gconf/python2.5/gtk-2.0 \
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    -name "*.so" | sudo xargs chrpath -d
      
== Significant bugs ==
 
== Significant bugs ==
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Jaunty (9.04) and Karmic (9.10) have [http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/310 a broken D-Bus security configuration] that prevents sugar-emulator from working (because Xephyr cannot work).
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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).
On all versions [http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/342 sugar-emulator doesn't work properly if the X server uses evdev as keyboard driver] (because of a Xephyr bug).
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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)
    
== Potential pitfalls ==
 
== Potential pitfalls ==
    
* gtk-recordmydesktop may prevent sugar-emulator from working properly
 
* gtk-recordmydesktop may prevent sugar-emulator from working properly
* You may have some issues with penguintv, just interrupt the pull with a CTRL+C, open a shell, repeat the command manually, and accept the certificate permanently.
 
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