Sugar on Debian

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Please contribute instructions for getting Sugar to work with Debian GNU/Linux. In the meanwhile, the instructions for Sugar on Ubuntu Linux will probably work on Debian as well.

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I just got sugar working on debian unstable, and there were two long stages. Building Sugar_with_sugar-jhbuild took about 3.5 hours on my p3 700, and required supervision, as missing dependencies were discovered from time to time. After building everything, ./sugar-jhbuild run failed because other packages were not installed on my system. The following list should be considered prerequisite to anyone wanting to run sugar on debian unstable.

• automake1.7
• gtk-doc-tools
• xnest
• libtiff-tools libtiff4 libtiff4-dev
• gconf2 gconf2-common libgconf2-dev
• dbus python-dbus
• avahi-daemon avahi-utils avahi-discover python-avahi
• network-manager-dev network-manager dhcdbd libnm-* network-manager-gnome

I recovered these packages from my shell history, by searching for 'apt-get install'. Obviously, many of them brought their own dependencies and I probably happened to some important packages installed already, so please feel free to add to this list, or make corrections.

--James Bergstra

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