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Subject: help with sugar (non jhbuild) on osx
From: johnp () redhat ! com (John (J5) Palmieri)
Date: 2007-02-13 9:43:23
Message-ID: 1171377950.3232.45.camel () localhost ! localdomain
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On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 21:17 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 10:39 -0800, Dan Aronson wrote:
> > Can anyone supply some simple instructions for downloading and running
> > sugar not using jhbuild on osx. I have some slightly different versions
> > of some of the dependencies and rather than install everything, I would
> > like to just try installing sugar solo and seeing if I can tweak it
> > enough (if necessary) to work.
>
> It may not work so well on OS X unless you've got dbus working there
> too, which to my knowledge doesn't run on OS X yet.
D-Bus should run on OSX fine. We just have no way of starting a session
bus with your session but you can start sugar with a session bus.
> You'll need Avahi
> too, rather than Apple's mDNSResponder and friends. In short, you're
> going to spend quite a bit of time trying to port stuff to OS X rather
> than making sugar actually work, I think.
Even running sugar outside of a jhbuild root or virtual machine in Linux
is hard work. On OSX the best ways to work is through jhbuild or
vitalization software such as qemu, VirtualPC or Parallels.
--
John (J5) Palmieri <johnp@redhat.com>
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