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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
You have two ways to get the dependencies: Build-base and building/installing packages manually from sid 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'.
Alternative 2: Install dependency libraries directly from Debian Sid
Alternative 3: Installing from apt
- First do a quick search of Sugar
apt-cache search sugar
- Then install it by doing the command
apt-get install sugar
Note:This works for debian testing
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
Problems and Solutions
- It seems plausible that while run dependency check, python-cairo and gtk2.0 have problems while instaling dependencies, (dev libraries) try installing first the gtk2.0 libraries, that should erase the dependence on python-cairo.