[sugar] Errors installing Sugar

[Simon Schampijer]

Hi James,

James Newton wrote:
> 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?

No, besides getting the prerequisites there is nothing you need to do 
before you can build the environment. In the case of the unavailability 
of the abiword server - I do have the same issue. You can still build 
the rest of the environment. Use ctrl+c when the download does not 
succeed and choose [3] give up on module.

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

uwog (in cc) might know what the issue is or who to ping about it.

best,
    Simon