Overview

Thanks to Roman for these steps on building and running the Ubuntu One client from trunk. The steps below assume you have completely removed all Ubuntu One client packages, config files, and metadata.

Configure & Build

•    $ cd ~/canonical/ubuntuone
     bzr branch lp:ubuntuone-storage-protocol
     bzr branch lp:ubuntuone-client
     cd ubuntuone-storage-protocol
     python setup.py clean
     python setup.py build
     sudo python setup.py install
     cd ../ubuntuone-client
     ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --with-protocol=/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages
     sudo make install
     sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ubuntuone/storageprotocol/ /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ubuntuone 

n.b. I hope nobody takes this as an unwelcome addition, but I got up to "sudo make install" and got an error "make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop." Any ideas?

Run

The following will start syncdaemon, connect, authorize, initialize the ~/Ubuntu One/ folder, and then report the status of the syncdaemon.

•    $ /usr/libexec/ubuntuone-syncdaemon &
     u1sdtool --connect
     u1sync --authorize
     u1sync --init ~/Ubuntu\ One/
     u1sdtool -status