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==Installation==


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It was really easy to get [[Sugar]] going under gentoo using sugar-jhbuild. The instructions on this page have been tested under Gentoo 2006.1 ~x86


=== Emerge(1) the prerequisites ===

There are a number of packages required to get going. All of these, with the
exception of jhbuild, are in the portage tree.

emerge -av dev-util/git cvs subversion docbook-sgml-utils gtk-doc avahi expat gstreamer xulrunner pycurl networkmanager

I have definitely missed one or two as I started with a full xorg-x11 desktop with gnome already installed, please add them to this list if you find any!

Note: as of 2007-01-24 the networkmanager package and a number of its dependencies are now hard-masked by Gentoo due to bug reports To emerge these dependencies you will need to add the packages to /etc/portage/package.unmask. This is generally *not* recommended on Gentoo for anyone not willing to deal with problems that arise themselves.

Also note the following message during building:

cryptsetup requires dm-crypt support!
Please enable dm-crypt support in your kernel config, found at:
(for 2.6 kernels)
Device Drivers
Multi-Device Support
Device mapper support
[*] Crypt Target Support
and recompile your kernel if you want this package to work with this kernel. Many kernels will have the module already, try:

modprobe dm-crypt

and see if you have the kernel module already.

Many of the packages are also not available without using the "unstable" flag for x86 (i.e. adding the package to /etc/portage/package.keywords).

=== Getting and building jhbuild ===

Instructions for getting and installing jhbuild can be found at: http://www.gnome.org/~jamesh/jhbuild.html#getting-started


=== Using Sugar-jhbuild ===

Use of Sugar-jhbuild is detailed on [[Sugar#Build_from_sources|building Sugar from sources]]. To summarize those instructions:

git-clone git://dev.laptop.org/sugar-jhbuild
cd sugar-jhbuild
./sugar-jhbuild

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

cd sugar-jhbuild
git-pull

The sanity checks are still very basic but, often, good information can be gotten from:

./sugar-jhbuild sanitycheck


=== Troubleshooting ===

==== missing db2html ====

You may find that jhbuild complains about missing 'db2html' in which case you will need to create a symlink from docbook2html:

ln -s /usr/bin/docbook2html /usr/bin/db2html


==== missing gconf.def ====

gnome-python-desktop was complaining about a missing gconf.def:

IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'sugar-jhbuild/build/share/pygtk/2.0/defs/gconf.defs'

I rectified this with a:

touch build/share/pygtk/2.0/defs/gconf.defs

and the build completed without problem.



=== Testing sugar ===

When using [[Sugar_with_sugar-jhbuild|sugar-jhbuild]], you can use:

./sugar-jhbuild run

If you want to run Sugar from the source tree enter in a jhbuild shell:

./sugar-jhbuild shell

Then from the directory sugar-jhbuild/source/sugar), use:

shell/sugar


'''This page has been [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Gentoo moved] to the Sugar Labs wiki.'''


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