Sugar on Fedora Core 5
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Note: This is a work in progress. It is not complete, due to Python not being able to see several modules required by Sugar. If you have experience with Python environment configuration, please edit this page! I am open to any and all comments/suggestions, and would like to get this up and running as a tutorial for others.
Get and install mercurial
su - rpm -i mercurial-0.9-1.fc5.i386.rpm (*see below)
Get Sugar from repository
hg clone http://hg.fedoraproject.org/hg/olpc/applications/sugar--devel
Get dependencies ironed out
yum install gnome-common yum install gtk2 gtk2-devel (Note: this is libgtk2.0 in Debian distros) yum install libstdc++ (which pulled multiple dependencies of its own!) yum install libstdc++.so.5 (even though libstdc++.so.6 existed!) yum install avahi yum install avahi-qt3 yum install dbus
Create symbolic link for libstdc++
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libstdc++.so.5 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
Get xulrunner from http://developer.mozilla.org
Install xulrunner (gecko-embed depends on it)
tar -xzf xulrunner-1.8.0.1.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz (they recommend untarring to /opt/xulrunner/1.8.0.1, I used /opt/xulrunner) /opt/xulrunner/xulrunner --register-global
Install gecko-embed from cvs
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome co gecko-embed
Build gecko-embed
cd gecko-embed ./autogen.sh make make install (as root or use sudo)
Get and Install avahi from avahi.org
tar -xzf avahi-0.6.11.tar.gz ./autogen.sh
Build Sugar
cd sugar--devel ./autogen.sh make
Run Sugar
avahi-daemon -D (may already be running) ./sugar/sugar <b>Note:</b> Sugar does not run, but throws: ImportError: No module named avahi I believe this is due to PYTHONPATH not being set correctly?
NOTES:
* Path will be dependent upon where you saved the RPMs to, i.e., if you saved to the desktop, your path might be /home/<username>/Desktop/<rpm package name>