[Olpc-za] Sugar on Linux

[Morgan Collett]

> > My other option is getting Sugar running
> > separately (probably on my oldish FreeBSD box) - anyone had success with
> > that?
>
> If you got it running under FreeBSD you would probably be the first.
> Don't know of anyone who has even tried.
>
> A word of warning: building sugar from source can be fiendishly fiddly -
> give me a shout if you need a hand!

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Setting_Up_a_Sugar_Development_Environment_on_%2AIX_OSes
(no FreeBSD yet though)

I just got it up on Ubuntu:
http://morgancollett.wordpress.com/2007/05/04/olpc-sugar-on-ubuntu-704/

Not too difficult, but I started the process about 36 hours ago - took
a long time to download/check out all the source, and a few retries
were needed along the way so it didn't finish overnight...

Morgan