[maemo-developers] Having trouble installing the scratchbox development environment.

[From: Hendrik Boom]

On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:56:47 +0300, josh.soref wrote:

> Hendrik Boom wrote:
>> Did that; I suspect I am really, truly, don't have a Scratchbox
>> account, and that something more is involved than just having an entry
>> in /etc/group:
> 
> Wow. Well, one thing to do is check /scratchbox/users/hendrik
> 
> I believe that directory needs to exist.

And it doesn't.  What are its proper permissions?  Presumably I'm
supposed to be the owner.  And its proper contents?  Or does it
start out empty?  If not, is there some command that sets it up
correctly?

-- hendrik

> 
> The alternatives are
> 
> 
> sh -x `which sb-conf` ...

This gave 

hendrik at lovesong:~$ sh -x `which sb-conf`
+ import os, sys
+ import os.path as p
import: unable to open image `p': Is a directory.
/usr/bin/sb-conf: line 6: syntax error near unexpected token `"_SBOX_DIR"'
/usr/bin/sb-conf: line 6: `if os.getenv("_SBOX_DIR"):'
hendrik at lovesong:~$ 

> and
> strace -f `which sb-conf` ...