Sugar with sugar-jhbuild
One of the easiest ways to install Sugar is to use sugar-jhbuild.
Sugar-jhbuild will automatically download the latest of sugar's dependencies as well as sugar itself directly from their source repositories, rather than relying on source packages that may have become stale. Below are generic instructions on how to use sugar-jhbuild to get up and running with Sugar.
Install required packages
These are distribution specific. Feel free to add or update instructions for your own distribution.
Fedora Core 5
sudo yum install git
Ubuntu 6.06 "Dapper Drake."
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 libgtk2.0-dev libidl-dev gnome-common gtk-doc-tools libxt-dev automake1.7 automake1.9 python-gtk2-dev python2.4-avahi git-core cogito python-dev avahi-utils
Checkout sugar-jhbuild
git clone git://dev.laptop.org/sugar-jhbuild
Build sugar and it's dependencies
cd sugar-jhbuild ./sugar-jhbuild build
Run Sugar
./sugar-jhbuild run
Customize
To customize the build create a configuration file, named .olpc.jhbuildrc, in your home directory.
Write access to the repositories
If you have write access to the repositories you can add:
repos['gnome.org'] = ':ext:marco@cvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome' repos['mozilla.org'] = ':ext:marco%gnome.org@cvs.mozilla.org:/cvsroot' repos['git.laptop.org'] = 'git+ssh://dev.laptop.org/git/artwork'
Excluding packages
If you want to exclude package from the build (because you want to use those provided by your distribution) add something like:
skip = [ 'mozilla', 'gecko-embed' ]
Note that detection of system packages will be automated at some point.
Notes
sugar-jhbuild is still in early development. In particular, dependencies detection will be improved. It needs a lot of testing, so give it a try and report issues!