Sugar on Ubuntu
Installation
The easiest way to install Sugar on Ubuntu is to use Sugar-jhbuild. The instructions on this page are for Ubuntu 6.06 "Dapper Drake."
apt-get the prerequisites
You need a number of packages from the Ubuntu repositories. Some of these packages are not available for the stock Ubuntu install, and you may need to enable the universe and multiverse repositories.
sudo apt-get install build-essential cvs docbook-utils subversion libgtk2.0-dev libidl-dev \ gnome-common gtk-doc-tools libxt-dev automake1.7 automake1.8 automake1.9 python-gtk2-dev \ python2.4-avahi git-core cogito python-dev avahi-utils \ libgconf2-dev xnest libgnome2-dev mozilla-dev libmatchbox-dev python-cairo-dev \ libtiff4-dev python-gnome2-dev libxdamage-dev libxdamage1 libxcomposite-dev
There may be more packages required; if you find any more, please append them to this list.
Then you must ensure that the Avahi daemon is enabled and running. Execute:
sudo vim /etc/default/avahi-daemon
and ensure the directive "AVAHI_DAEMON_START" is set to 1. Then execute:
sudo /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon start
Using Sugar-jhbuild
Use of Sugar-jhbuild is detailed on 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
Troubleshooting
automake version mismatch
During the building task you may get the following error:
error during stage configure of matchbox-window-manager:....[9/12]
This error happens because Ubuntu uses the automake 1.4 version in contrast with matchbox-window-manager which uses the automake 1.9 version. In order to bypass this error you can execute the following command:
sudo update-alternatives --config automake
You will get the following list with the asterisk being at the 1 selection
There are 3 alternatives which provide `automake'. Selection Alternative + 1 /usr/bin/automake-1.4 2 /usr/bin/automake-1.7 * 3 /usr/bin/automake-1.9 Press enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number:
Here you should press the button 3 and the try again to build sugar.
git, the SCM
On Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake, git has been deprecated. You have to run the following command to get git to work properly.
sudo update-alternatives --config git Select option #2: git-scm
Testing sugar
When using 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