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Testing Sabayon
</title></head><body><div id="main"><div id="top"><img src="title01.jpg" border="0" height="229" width="432" alt="Sabayon: user profiles made simple" /><img src="title02.jpg" border="0" height="229" alt="Small screenshot of sabayon" /></div><div id="left"><div class="box"><h2 class="box_title">Download</h2><h4 class="box_header">RPMs</h4><ul><li>RPMs for Fedora Core 4 are available from <a href="http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/">Fedora Extras</a></li></ul><h4 class="box_header">Source</h4><ul><li><a href="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/sabayon/">tarball</a></li><li><a href="http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/sabayon/">CVS Repository</a></li></ul></div><div class="box"><h2 class="box_title">Contribute</h2><p>There are several ways to contribute to the Sabayon project.</p><p><a href="testing.html">Testing</a>, go here if you want to install sabayon and try it out.</p><p><a href="developing.html">Developing</a>, get the code and try to fix errors and send patches to the maintainers.</p><p><a href="helping.html">Helping out</a> on the <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/sabayon-list/">mailing list</a> and <a href="irc://irc.gnome.org/sabayon">IRC</a> for people having problems, letting them know where to go and what to do.</p></div><div class="box"><h2 class="box_title">Contact</h2><p>You can contact developers <a href="mailto:sabayon-list@gnome.org">sending a mail</a> to the <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/sabayon-list/">Sabayon mailing list</a>. You do not need to be subscribed.</p><p>We are also often available to <a href="irc://irc.gnome.org/sabayon">chat on IRC</a>.</p><p><strong>Server:</strong> irc.gnome.org<br /><strong>Channel:</strong> #sabayon</p></div><div class="box"><h2 class="box_title">Documentation</h2><p>Format and deployement of the <a href="config.html">config
files</a></p><p>Technical informations on the <a href="format.html">profile
format</a></p></div></div><div id="right"><h4>Getting From CVS</h4><p>
To get the very latest copy of Sabayon you'll need to pull it from CVS. Here's how you'll do it.
</p><pre>
export CVSROOT=':pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome'
cvs login
[press enter for blank password]
cvs -z3 co sabayon
cd sabayon
</pre><h4>Getting From Package</h4><p>
Download the latest source package from the Sabayon package directory: <a href="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/sabayon/">http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/sabayon/</a>. Then untar the files like this:
</p><pre>
tar -zxvf sabayon-0.1.0.tar.gz
cd sabayon-0.1.0
</pre><h4>Building From Source</h4><p>
Assuming you've changed into the Sabayon source directory from either a package or CVS you now want to start the build.
</p><pre>
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install (sudo make install may work for you)
</pre><h4>Environment</h4><p>Check the README file, to test sabayon you need a number of
packages to be up to date. This is checked by the RPM upon installation.
You also need a sabayon user defined like:</p><pre>sabayon:x:50140:99:Sabayon user:/var/sabayon:/sbin/nologin</pre><p>The RPM post install scripts uses the following command to
create this specific user:</p><tt>/usr/sbin/useradd -c "Sabayon user" -d /var/sabayon -g nobody -s /sbin/nologin sabayon </tt><p>You may need to do this by hand or in you package to have a
working installation of sabayon</p><h4>Testing</h4><p>
Now that you have Sabayon installed try it by launching sabayon
as root and create new profiles and edit them. Don't forget to save
the session before quitting to have the profile updated. Check the step
by step example available from Seth Nickell <a href="http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog/sabayon">blog about sabayon 0.12</a>.</p><h4>Reporting Bugs</h4><p>
When reporting bugs about Sabayon it is most helpful to explain the sequence of events you did to generate the bug. If we can reproduce the bug it is
of course easier to fix.</p><p>
Report bugs for sabayon to GNOME Bugzilla under the <a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=sabayon">Sabayon
product</a>.
</p><h4>Getting More Help</h4><p>
The GNOME web site has lots of materials for helping you build packages from source, see the <a href="http://developer.gnome.org/tools/cvs.html">developer site</a> for more information about CVS and autogen and building. If you have any other questions feel free to direct them to IRC or the mailing list.
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