On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 11:23 +1000, Edward Stow wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Norbert Hartl <
norbert@hartl.name> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 08:20 +1000, Edward Stow wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Miguel Enrique Cobá Martínez
> > > <
m.coba.m@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > >
> > > > I use squeak inside a chroot as per instructions here:
> > > >
> > > >
http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html
> > > >
> > > > as there is no 64 bit perfect setup for squeak
> > > >
> > > > I installed squeak inside the chroot with the repositories from
squeak.org
> > > > (section other OSes)
> > > >
> > > > hope this help
> > >
> > > Yes is does -- it does confirm that a simple install is not available
> > > for amd64 architecture. By simple, I mean sudo apt-get install
> > > squeak.
> >
> > > And it doesn't. I have a hard time convincing my sys admins and their
> > > bosses to take seriously a package that does not have a
> > > straightforward install process on 64 bit machines.
> > >
> > > chroot'ing in their words is for 'legacy and un-supported systems that
> > > should not be installed on a production server.'
> > >
> > > I am trying to set up a demonstration server that will allow squeak
> > > with seaside to be considered a viable alternative. I should say that
> > > I'm not a sys admin and am feeling very frustrated with the lack of
> > > installable options.
> > >
> > > So please ... could those that maintain the debian and / or other os
> > > vms create an installable 64 bit deb and / or rpm.
> > >
> >
> > At the moment there is no packaged version which does compile on amd64.
> > Otherwise it would be quite simple to create such a package. You can run
> > 32 bit applications on 64 bit but on a debian package level this is not
> > an easy task to achieve.
> >
> > If you want to setup an demonstration server why you don't take the
> > installer script which comes with the vm package on
squeakvm.org ? This
> > installs the 32bit binaries on your machine.
> >
> > I created a package for you which is a amd64 target ubuntu package which
> > contains the binaries from the 3.10.1 i686 package from squeakvm.org.[1]
> > It installs into /opt/squeak. You can use use
> >
> > /opt/squeak/bin/squeakvm YOUR-IMAGE
> >
> > to start squeak. Don't be misled by the ubuntu in the package name. It
> > should install on debian as well.
> >
> > Let me know if you have trouble using it.
> >
> > [1]
http://selfish.org/files/deb/squeak-vm-i686_0.1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
> >
> > Norbert
>
> Thanks that works.
>
> But this is really a plea --- My guess is that 95% of potential users
> would have stopped by now when apt-get install does not work.
>