Sugar on Fedora
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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.
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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
