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Please contribute instructions for getting [[Sugar]] to work with [http://debian.org/ Debian GNU/Linux].


== See also ==
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= Installing sugar on Debian Unstable =
* [[Installing Debian as an upgrade]]

* For now [[Sugar]] can only be installed on Unstable (SID)
** This appears not to be the case. I will report more fully as soon as I can.--[[User:Mokurai|Mokurai]] 17:00, 23 February 2007 (EST)

== Recommendations before beginning ==

As of 2007 Feb 16, Python 2.5 is not supported by any Debian variant (even unstable or experimental).

'''As of 2007 Feb 23, Python 2.5 is available in Debian testing.'''

Python 2.5 (release25-maint, Dec 9 2006, 14:35:53)
[GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-20)] on linux2

To cause Python 2.5 be supported, you can edit
<tt>/usr/share/python/debian_defaults</tt>.

<pre>
[DEFAULT]
# the default python version
default-version = python2.4
# all supported python versions
supported-versions = python2.4, python2.5
# formerly supported python versions
old-versions = python2.3
# unsupported versions, including older versions
unsupported-versions = python2.3
</pre>

Shown above is a copy of my <tt>debian_defaults</tt>.
Yours might look a little different.
The important thing is to check where python2.5 is listed.

You may need to change the default python in your $PATH as well:

<pre>
cd /usr/bin
sudo ln -sf python2.5 python
</pre>

===Recompiling===
''Before you do this you need to install on your system the tools indicated in [http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ debian maint-guide]''

Now that Python 2.5 is supported on your Debian box,
you need to recompile any python packages which are required by sugar.
An easy way to do this is to use <tt>apt-src</tt>. For example:

<pre>
$ mkdir debian # keep your work somewhere temporary
$ cd debian
$ apt-src install python-dbus
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Need to get 471kB of source archives.
Get:1 http://ftp.au.debian.org experimental/main dbus-python 0.80.2-1 (dsc) [881B]
Get:2 http://ftp.au.debian.org experimental/main dbus-python 0.80.2-1 (tar) [453kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.au.debian.org experimental/main dbus-python 0.80.2-1 (diff) [16.2kB]
Fetched 471kB in 38s (12.2kB/s)
gpg: Signature made Tue 13 Feb 2007 11:34:43 PM IST using DSA key ID 5BE41F21
gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found
dpkg-source: extracting dbus-python in dbus-python-0.80.2
dpkg-source: unpacking dbus-python_0.80.2.orig.tar.gz
dpkg-source: applying ./dbus-python_0.80.2-1.diff.gz
$ cd dbus-python-0.80.2
$ dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc -rfakeroot # wait a long time
$ cd ..
$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
</pre>

Here is a list (maybe incomplete) of python packages you will need to recompile:

* python-avahi
* python-cairo
* python-dbus
* python-gnome2-desktop
* python-gobject
* python-gtk2

If you neglect to recompile a python package which is indeed required by sugar
then hopefully you will get a helpful failure message indicating where you are
remiss.

== Steps ==


* Follow this instructions [[Sugar_with_sugar-jhbuild]], and also check [[Sugar]]
* After building everything, ./sugar-jhbuild run failed because other packages were not installed on The 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

* If you had already checked out sugar-jhbuild previously, make sure your copy is up-to-date before building:

cd sugar-jhbuild
git-pull

=== Tips ===

=== Troubleshooting ===

=== Other Links ===

* [http://www.gnome.org/~jamesh/jhbuild.html Install jhbuild]

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