On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 03:26:06PM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: > Is there anyone available to help me get started building Sugar on > ubuntu dapper? So far I haven't been able to manage to "sudo apt-get > install python-avahi"; if I try this, I always get "E: Couldn't find > package python-avahi". All other packages from > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_on_Ubuntu_Linux installed okay (after > messing with /etc/apt/sources.list; I don't really know what this is, > but pasting output from the source-o-matic in the front made other > problems go away). > > If I ignore this, running ./sugar-jhbuild after the git-clone command > gives me this: > > """ > Checking dependencies... > Missing dependencies: > > avahi (python module) > rsvg (python module) > wnck (python module) > glib-2.0 2.12 > gtk+-2.0 2.10 > pygtk-2.0 2.10 > pycairo 1.2 > dbus-1 1.0 > dbus-python 0.80
at a guess you want to apt-get install python-utils libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev python-gtk2-dev python-cairo libdbus-1-dev python-dbus (and maybe python-cairo-dev) Not sure where you are going to get the rsvg/wnck python modules from though... Trent > > Install the packages from your distribution which provides these > functionalities, including the development package for libraries. > If one or more of the packages (and versions) are not provided by your > distribution you can build them from sources, using this command: > sugar-jhbuild build-base > """ > > Following the advice in that message and running the latter command > fails building many packages including fontconfig, hence cairo, and > many others. Details at request; I'll happily take this offline but > I've got to start somewhere... > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/sugar _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/sugar
