[sugar] Errors installing Sugar

[James Newton]

Summary: <http://sugar.abisource.com/> is unavailable, and so
./sugar-jhbuild build fails.


Hi folks,

I'm trying to install Sugar on Ubuntu 7.10.  The instructions on ...

  <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_with_sugar-jhbuild>

... tell me to do this:

git-clone git://dev.laptop.org/sugar-jhbuild
cd sugar-jhbuild
git-pull
./sugar-jhbuild update
./sugar-jhbuild build


ERRORS 1 AND 2
--------------
I get as far as ./sugar-jhbuild update, which starts out fine.  Then I run
into a couple of seemingly non-fatal errors:

  *** error during stage checkout of hippo-canvas:
  [Errno 2] No such file or directory *** [8/51]

  *** error during stage checkout of matchbox-window-manager:
  [Errno 2] No such file or directory *** [20/51]

Both times, I can choose:

  [2] ignore error and continue to done.

However, the notes at <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hacking_Sugar#Sugar>
suggest that both Hippo-Canvas and Matchbox Window Manager are essential
components of Sugar.


ERROR 3
-------
Then I run into a different issue: http://sugar.abisource.com/ seems to be
down.  The update process times out 20 times before it gives up.

  #### Error running wget http://sugar.abisource.com/src/libabiword-
  2.6.0.svn20071113.tar.gz -O /home/james/OLPC/Sugar/sugar-
  jhbuild/source/libabiword-2.6.0.svn20071113.tar.gz *** [23/51]

This leads to other insurmountable errors:

  *** error during stage unpack of libabiword:
  could not unpack tarball *** [23/51]

  *** error during stage patch of libabiword:
  could not apply patch *** [23/51]

And so on.


ERROR 3 REVISITED
-----------------
If I follow the instructions at...

<http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_on_Ubuntu_Linux#apt-get_the_prerequisites>

... then...

<http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hacking_Sugar#Get_Sugar-JHBuild> 

..., hippo-canvas and matchbox-window-manager apparently get included in the
build correctly, but the build still chokes at step [23/51] because
<http://sugar.abisource.com/> is unavailable.


Questions:

1) Is there an extra step that needs to be executed before the
   instructions at <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_with_sugar-jhbuild>
   will run correctly?

2) Who should I alert about the unavailability of
   <http://sugar.abisource.com/>?


Thanks in advance,

James