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After the announcement to ask for more debuggers, BeeSeek is finally ready to officially start Hive debugging also because bug #172810 has been fixed.
Let's see what we have to do:

~ Setup ~

Hive can be installed in any Linux distribution, or any Unix-based system like Mac OS X, and it can be used in Windows as well. You just need:

- Python 2.5
- Bazaar >= 0.90

Most linux distributions already have python installed or they've a quick method to install it. If you have troubles, take a look at the end of this post to find community links to get help.

~ Installation ~

You can install Hive using Bazaar NG:

bzr branch http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~beeseek-core-devs/beeseek/hive

This command creates a folder, named hive, in which you'll find all the needed software. If you don't want to download it in your home folder, create another folder and move hive there, like this:

mkdir ~/foldername
cd ~/foldername

~ Start up ~

Go in the folder in which you downloaded hive:

cd ~/foldername/hive

Change permissions:

chmod a+x hive

and launch it:

./hive -vfa

-v = verbose (shows more informations)
-f = foreground
-a = keep alive (keep hive open in case of noncritical errors)

The option -t is useful because you can close Hive with ctrl+c or ctrl-d.

~ Debugging ~

You can test Hive looking for bugs, reporting them on Launchpad. For
further help and informations, look at our wiki page about Bugs.
Most important things are:

• do not report an existing bug (look for something similar before posting it)
• add as more details as possible (software version, operating system, what you did, bug effects, special configurations)

It could also be useful to register in our developers mailing list or chat with us on IRC.

If you'd like to become an active debugger and help us constancily, you have to register in the Quality Assurance Team and read the page about Bug Triaging. For further informations on how to register in a team, visit the wiki Community page.

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EDIT: correction under Startup section of option -t = not daemonic, now this has been replaced in developing Hive with -f = foreground.