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These instructions apply to Fedora 7, 8, and 9 32- and 64-bit.
This is preferred method for core Sugar developers, as dependencies change continually.
Requirements
A full build using sugar-jhbuild will require about 3 Gig of disk space.
Step 1: Install the build prerequisites
sudo yum -y update sudo yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools" sudo yum -y groupinstall "X Software Development" sudo yum -y install git intltool darcs xorg-x11-server-Xephyr \ gstreamer-devel gstreamer-plugins-base-devel gstreamer-python \ fribidi-devel enchant-devel openssl-devel sqlite-devel python-devel \ ncurses-devel expat-devel boost-devel libvorbis-devel libtheora-devel speex-devel \ docbook-style-xsl GConf2-devel gettext-devel libgsf-devel gnutls-devel liboil-devel \ avahi-devel avahi-glib-devel poppler-devel gtk-doc gnome-python2-rsvg gnome-python2-libwnck \ gnome-common libxslt-devel pango-devel gtk2-devel atk-devel libglade2-devel \ pycairo-devel pygtk2-devel avahi-tools dbus-glib-devel python-json python-cjson numpy \ automake17 bison libjpeg-devel libtiff-devel libXt-devel libXres-devel gnome-doc-utils \ libtool flex gcc-c++ alsa-utils alsa-lib-devel gnome-python2-gnomevfs gnome-vfs2-devel \ gnome-python2-gconf libidn-devel python-simplejson wv wv-devel libcroco-devel \ librsvg2-devel xapian-bindings-python xapian-core-libs avahi-gobject-devel \ icon-naming-utils loudmouth-devel icon-slicer popt-devel dejavu-fonts xorg-x11-utils \ libmatchbox matchbox-window-manager xulrunner-python-devel xulrunner-devel-unstable \ hippo-canvas-python pyabiword hippo-canvas-python
- NOTE
- the dependency check will fail if you don't have a DISPLAY set.
- NOTE
- If you are trying to install Fedora under emulation check out Emulated Sugar-jhbuild.
Step 2: version-specific steps
Fedora 9 64-bit
Fedora 9 rawhide package solves the Xephyr problem on 64-bit Fedora
yum --enablerepo=rawhide update xorg-x11-server-Xephyr
At the time of this writing the new Xephyr version was xorg-x11-server-Xephyr-1.4.99.906-5.fc10.x86_64
Step 3: Follow the standard build instructions
Follow the standard build instructions