On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 11:02 -0500, Mike Hunter wrote: > On Feb 01 at 10:28, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 10:11 -0500, Mike Hunter wrote: > [snip] > > > I've got a fresh Ubuntu build and I'm going to give these instructions a > > > whirl. I'll let you know how it goes. > > > > > > Are the sugar-jhbuild commands supposed to be executed as root or as a > > > regular user? > > > > regular user is OK > > Thanks. > > > > Also, do your instructions here supersede these instructions: > > > > > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_with_sugar-jhbuild > > > > > > > These are up to date. So you should follow these. (I made some changes > > to the process after my mail to the list) > > Thanks. I've already started with just the sanitycheck, but I see that > that's part of the regular build... > > > > and these? > > > > > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_on_Ubuntu_Linux > > > > > > Or do they supersede them depending on how my install goes, perhaps? :) > > > > These should be updated yeah. I'd hope we can mostly avoid distribution > > specific instructions now, actually. > > An admirable goal! :) > > > Let me know how it goes. > > I've gotten past most of the sanity check with standard apt-get / > synaptic cherry-picking, but I'm stuck on python. Ubuntu seems to > default to python 2.4. I installed python 2.5, but I see the sanity > check doing `python -V` and it's failing because of this: > > % ls -l /usr/bin/python* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2007-01-31 18:23 /usr/bin/python -> python2.4 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1019680 2006-10-11 17:52 /usr/bin/python2.4 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1145032 2006-10-06 11:23 /usr/bin/python2.5 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1276 2006-10-06 11:23 /usr/bin/python2.5-config > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3031632 2006-10-06 11:13 /usr/bin/python2.5-dbg > > This could be considered an ubuntu-specific problem, but do you have any > suggestions on how to proceed? I'm trying hard to build this server > without my usual dirty simlink hacknig :) Should I uninstall python > 2.4? (I have a feeling ubuntu's not going to like that). Is there a > way I could give sugar a hint about the non-standard python 2.5 path?
If python 2.5 is not the distribution default then you will have to build the base packages (as explained by sanity check). The problem is that a lot of python packages (pygtk for example) are built against 2.4 and so they would not work. Marco _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/sugar
