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This takes a long time, but will work. After that, do 'build' and 'run'. |
This takes a long time, but will work. After that, do 'build' and 'run'. |
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=== Alternative 2: Get packages from Experimental === |
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If you don't want to compile everything, add the experimental repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list. |
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There are some packages that can be installed from unstable: |
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aptitude install darcs libdbus-1-dev libenchant-dev libfribidi-dev libgconf2-dev libgsf-1-dev |
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libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev libxslt1-dev libxul-dev python-avahi python-cairo-dev xserver-xephyr xulrunner |
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But we're still missing python2.5 and some python2.5 modules that need separate compilation. |
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==== Prerequisites ==== |
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Python 2.5 is installable from Debian testing but, as of 2007 Feb 16, |
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it is "unsupported" in the sense that Python modules are not |
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compiled with support for 2.5 by default. |
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To cause Python 2.5 be supported, you can edit |
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<tt>/usr/share/python/debian_defaults</tt>. |
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<pre> |
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[DEFAULT] |
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# the default python version |
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default-version = python2.5 |
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# all supported python versions |
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supported-versions = python2.4, python2.5 |
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# formerly supported python versions |
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old-versions = python2.3 |
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# unsupported versions, including older versions |
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unsupported-versions = python2.3 |
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</pre> |
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Shown above is a copy of my <tt>debian_defaults</tt>. |
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Yours might look a little different. |
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The important thing is to check where python2.5 is listed. |
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You also need to change the default <tt>python</tt> in your $PATH as well (unfortunate, but it's currently how the dependency checker in Sugar works): |
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<pre> |
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cd /usr/bin |
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sudo ln -sf python2.5 python |
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</pre> |
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==== Python Modules in 2.5 ==== |
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Before beginning, install tools indicated in [http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ debian maint-guide]. Also, |
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you need to make sure the experimental source archive is listed |
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in <tt>/etc/apt/sources.list</tt>: |
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<pre> |
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deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian experimental main #important! |
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# Also may be required: |
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deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free |
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deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main |
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deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian experimental main |
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</pre> |
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Now that Python 2.5 is "supported" on your Debian box, |
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you need to recompile any Python packages which are required by sugar. |
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An easy way to do this is to use <tt>apt-src</tt>. For example: |
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<pre> |
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$ mkdir debian # keep your work somewhere temporary |
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$ cd debian |
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$ apt-src install python-dbus |
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Reading package lists... Done |
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Building dependency tree... Done |
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Need to get 471kB of source archives. |
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Get:1 http://ftp.au.debian.org experimental/main dbus-python 0.80.2-1 (dsc) [881B] |
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Get:2 http://ftp.au.debian.org experimental/main dbus-python 0.80.2-1 (tar) [453kB] |
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Get:3 http://ftp.au.debian.org experimental/main dbus-python 0.80.2-1 (diff) [16.2kB] |
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Fetched 471kB in 38s (12.2kB/s) |
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gpg: Signature made Tue 13 Feb 2007 11:34:43 PM IST using DSA key ID 5BE41F21 |
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gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found |
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dpkg-source: extracting dbus-python in dbus-python-0.80.2 |
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dpkg-source: unpacking dbus-python_0.80.2.orig.tar.gz |
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dpkg-source: applying ./dbus-python_0.80.2-1.diff.gz |
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$ cd dbus-python-0.80.2 |
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$ dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc -rfakeroot # wait a long time |
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$ cd .. |
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$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb |
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</pre> |
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Here is a list (maybe incomplete) of Python packages you will need to recompile: |
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* avahi |
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* dbus-python |
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* gnome-python-desktop |
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* gnome-python-extras |
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* gnome-python |
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* pycairo |
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* pycurl |
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* pygobject |
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* pygtk |
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* pyorbit |
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* python-pysqlite |
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* python-xml |
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If you neglect to recompile a Python package which is indeed required by sugar |
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then hopefully you will get a helpful failure message indicating where you are |
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remiss. |
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=== Debian-OLPC === |
=== Debian-OLPC === |
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Revision as of 07:29, 17 November 2007
This article is a stub. You can help the OLPC project by expanding it.
Please contribute instructions for getting Sugar to work with Debian GNU/Linux.
Installing sugar on Debian Unstable
Get sugar-jhbuild
aptitude install git-core
Get sugar-jhbuild through git as described in Sugar with sugar-jhbuild.
Run sugar-jhbuild
cd sugar-jhbuild ./sugar-jhbuild update ./sugar-jhbuild build
If update fails with:
ImportError: No Module name ctypes
Try running
aptitude install python-ctypes
Plenty of dependencies are likely to fail.
For build-base, you should need:
aptitude install libtool libsqlite3-dev libnspr4-dev docbook-xsl intltool
Now, this is ALL you need if you want to spend many hours compiling many packages:
The Dependencies
Debian Sugar build dependencies
You have two ways to get the dependencies: Build-base and building/installing packages manually from experimental archives.
Alternative 1: Build Base
This is easy, but it takes a long time and builds custom versions of all the dependencies (rather than getting them through apt).
./sugar-jhbuild build-base
This takes a long time, but will work. After that, do 'build' and 'run'.
Debian-OLPC
- Now there is an debian-olpc project alioth debian-olpc
- You can join the mail lists
External links
See also Installing Debian as an upgrade