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Development builds are versions of Syllable that we create inbetween official releases, for testing purposes. They carry a date of production instead of a version number. Even though there are no guarantees for any Syllable release, you should be extra careful with development releases. In fact, they are guaranteed to contain bugs! :-) They may also be incomplete or not work at all. We do like you to try them, because we like you to report bugs that you find. We may not experience those bugs ourselves, so your reports are really useful. Please try to describe all relevant information. We try to fix bugs before the next official release. You may also benefit sooner if we can fix a bug for the next development build.

Development builds are made irregularly. We do them when they make sense because there are changes to test, and when we can make time for them.

There are no upgrade packages for development builds.

You need the 7-Zip compression tool to unpack the main archives. This is included in Syllable.


The latest full installation ISO CD image is here. It is around 75 MB:

Syllable Desktop Jan 7

Please check that your (unpacked) download and burned CD are correct by comparing the MD5 checksum: MD5 checksums.

If you want to compile software, you need to install an extra package with additional development files (static libraries and accompanying headers that are part of system components):

Syllable Desktop Jan 7 development files

First unzip the package:

    unzip SyllableDesktop-0.6.7-20100107-development.i586.zip

Now switch to the administrative (root) user account:

    su

The development files need to be installed and registered into the /system/ directory with the included installation script:

    cd SyllableDesktop-0.6.7-20100107-development
    ./install.sh

(Please note that you cannot use these development files with any other version of Syllable. Contrary to other software for Syllable, the development files must match the Syllable system version exactly.)

Here are the logs from the system build procedure:

Failures in core system
Failures in extended base system
Core system summary
Base system summary
Full run stderr
Core system stdout
Base system stdout
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