Sugar on Fedora

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sugar-jhbuild

Developer's Setup

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These instructions apply to Fedora 7, 8, 9, and 10 32- and 64-bit.

This is preferred method for core Sugar developers, as dependencies change continually.

Requirements

A full build using sugar-jhbuild will require about 3 Gig of disk space.

Step 1: Install the build prerequisites

sudo yum -y update
sudo yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools"
sudo yum -y groupinstall "X Software Development"

NOTE

the dependency check will fail if you don't have a DISPLAY set.

NOTE

If you are trying to install Fedora under emulation check out Emulated Sugar-jhbuild.

Step 2: version-specific steps

Fedora 9 64-bit

Fedora 9 rawhide package solves the Xephyr problem on 64-bit Fedora

yum --enablerepo=rawhide update xorg-x11-server-Xephyr

At the time of this writing the new Xephyr version was xorg-x11-server-Xephyr-1.4.99.906-5.fc10.x86_64

Step 3: Follow the standard build instructions

Follow the standard build instructions