[sugar] Installing sugar on Debian lenny

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Sascha Silbe <
sascha-ml-ui-sugar-sugar at silbe.org> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Not sure if this is the correct list but I couldn't find a better match.
>
> I'm currently trying to install sugar (Sucrose) on Debian lenny (fresh
> install on a laptop) using sugar-jhbuild (the official packages are rather
> old) as root. There are several problems; inconsistent instructions don't
> make it any easier.
> In general, I'm following the "Sugar on Debian" wiki page [1]. That page in
> itself is already a bit inconsistent (e.g. last sentence of first paragraph
> vs. section 1.3.3). If there's no objection I'm going to fix that and some
> of the things mentioned below.
>
> Most of the problems seem to be search path related (so probably have the
> main root cause); for the last one, I haven't found any solution or
> workaround yet so I'm stuck.
>
> Problems encountered so far:
> 1. "build-base" has been renamed to "bootstrap" in sugar-jhbuild, but
>   even the output of --help-commands gives the old name (how about
>   autogeneration of the commands list?).
>
> 2. "bootstrap" fails in some random package because libbz2-dev wasn't
>   installed (not mentioned on the wiki page) => Python didn't build
>   bz2 module



Boostrap is a jhbuild command which we don't usually use for sugar. Can you
try to do a clean build without it?

Marco
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