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!!!Overview

This section covers setup of a local Mozilla Sync server to act as a local synchronisation service for Firefox clients.


!!!Official documentation and test environment

The official guide for performing this is here: [http://docs.services.mozilla.com/howtos/run-sync.html]\\

I am configuring this in an Ubuntu 10.04 VirtualBox VM.\\
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!!!Install the server

I have simply followed the steps in the above linked documentation to do this, summarized as follows.

!!Install an Ubuntu 10.04 VirtualBox VM

Once installed, I have installed the VirtualBox Guest Additions and run a full software update. 

!!Install prerequisite packages

The packages needed are:

*python-dev
*mercurial
*sqlite3
*python-virtualenv


{{{$ sudo apt-get install python-dev mercurial sqlite3 python-virtualenv}}}


!!Download and build the Sync server

I have run the following in order:

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$ hg clone https://hg.mozilla.org/services/server-full
$ cd server-full
$ make build
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