[sugar] Runtime problems on Ubuntu edgy (6.10)

Tomeu Vizoso tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net
Tue Dec 12 03:57:20 EST 2006


Hi Mike,

I have installed libfribidi-dev. Could you check that it was what was
missing? And perhaps update the wiki afterwards?

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_on_Ubuntu_Linux

Thanks,

Tomeu

On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 22:28 -0500, Mike Hunter wrote:
> Hi Tomeu,
> 
> On Dec 10 at 09:08, "Tomeu Vizoso" wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > Yes, I also had this error the first time i tried to compile abi.
> > 
> > This is caused because configure has not been run on your machine yet. 
> > 
> > So, ./sugar-jhbuild buildone -a libabiword should configure it before
> > building. Alternatively, you can tell jhbuild to configure it from one
> > of the options that will appear after giving this error message.
> 
> Another day, another step closer, but another error :/
> 
> I tried the -a but I got an error on "enchant".  I was able to build enchant
> and get past that, but now it wants "fribidi", but ./sugar-jhbuild
> fribidi doesn't work (nor does libfribidi).  apt-get tells me that the
> system's copy of libfribidi is up to date (but that shouldn't matter).
> 
> So my current sticking point is that `sugar-jhbuild buildone -a libabiword`
> gives:
> 
> ...
> checking for FRIBIDI... 
> fribidi sources can be downloaded from SourceForge
> 
>         http://freedesktop.org/Software/FriBidi
> 
> Note: Don't use the fribidi source which is sometimes
>       included with AbiWord since that version is for
>       Windows only.
> configure: error: * * * fribidi >= 0.10.4 is required * * *
> 
> Thanks for the continued help,
> 
> Mike
> 



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