Hi Peter, As Mariano said above, what you probably want is to be able to run the 32 bit VM in your 64 bit Linux. If this is the case, what you are probably missing is the 32 bit libraries, that you can install:

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

Cheers

r

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Peter Osburg < nabble@peterosburg.otherinbox.com> wrote:

Hi list,

Ramiro Diaz Trepat-2 wrote:

...

Is this the only way to get a 64 bit Linux VM?

I would like to raise the question again.

I tried to download squeak in a Debian with the mechanism described here: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3616

Unfortunately I always get this message: "Failed to fetch http://ftp.squeak.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz 404 Not Found"

Is there a simple way like using "apt-get update" to install the latest 64bit vm? I am not that familiar with Linux and I would prefer easy and simple ways, though :D

Thanks in advance for any help.

Dave Woodward wrote:

...

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck <[hidden email]> wrote:

I fordward an email from someone having problems to compile squeakVM


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dave Woodward <[hidden email]>
Date: Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:10 PM
Subject: [Pharo-project] Compiling a Squeak VM for Pharo on Ubuntu

8.04 LTS Server (64bit) To: [hidden email]

I tried using the pre-compiled VM from the Pharo website to no avail.
I'm not exactly sure what the problem is, but when running the
pre-compiled Pharo VM, OR the pre-compiled Squeak 3.10-6 VM, they

just

...

quit with a "File not found" error.  My only hunch regarding this is
that they were compiled on 32bit Linuxes, and I'm using a 64bit

Linux.

...

I'm using a bare-bones install of Ubuntu server, 8.04LTS 64bit.  I'm
using Slicehost.com for a virtual server to run a Seaside application
(they use all 64bit *NIXs), and I'm switching from vanilla Squeak 3.9
to Pharo.

So, since the Squeak 3.10-6 VM didn't work either I decided to

compile

...

my own VM.  This does not work out of the box on a vanilla Ubuntu
Server 8.04 install, so here are the steps I took to successfully
compile the VM from the 3.10-6 src files:

(cd /Squeak-3.10-6/platforms/unix)

Configure:
./config/configure --without-x --without-gl --without-quartz

--without-npsqueak

NOTE: The configure command adds 2 entries to disable the RomePlugin.
It looks like it first tests Freetype (not installed so adds an entry
to disable RomePlugin), and then tests Cairo (not installed, so adds
*another* entry to disable RomePlugin).  I believe the autoconf files
need to be fixed for this, but I leave it up to the squeak-dev folks
to figure that out as I have no knowledge of autoconf.

Make:
make squeak  (this will error)

To fix the damage from the note above, I had to remove the duplicate
entry for RomePlugin_exports on line 22 of disabledPlugins.c.

Make:
make squeak (should be successful)
make squeak install

move /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.10-6/UUIDPlugin to UUIDPlugin.bak as it
has the wrong ELF header, and I've heard has other problems too.

And now /usr/local/bin/squeak should work! (note, without X you'll
need to add "-vm display=none" for the VM to start).

I hope this helps people!  Thanks for everybody's hard work on Pharo!

Dave Woodward
...................................................
www.futuremint.com
317.332.6438 | [hidden email]

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Hi,

On 12.10.2009, at 12:39, Peter Osburg wrote:

Hi Ramiro,

thanks for the hint, I will try it later today. Does this also have the effect that I can install Squeak with

sudo apt-get update

This is very unlikely. A debian system tries to install always the same architecture which is 64bit in your case. The debian has the possibility to manage your use case but I never saw it applied to anywhere.

A lot of moons ago there was a discussion about this. To help out I built a debian package that has an architecture label of amd64 and installs the 32bit version of squeak. As it has a dependency to ia32- libs this is quite ok. The package can be found here [1]. But this is a rather old version of the squeak vm. If there is demand on this I could provide a more actual package and/or instructions how to build such a package

Norbert

[1] http://files.selfish.org/deb/squeak-vm-i686_0.1ubuntu1_amd64.deb

afterwards?

Regards, Peter

Ramiro Diaz Trepat-2 wrote:

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Hi Peter, As Mariano said above, what you probably want is to be able to run the 32 bit VM in your 64 bit Linux. If this is the case, what you are probably missing is the 32 bit libraries, that you can install:

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

Cheers

r

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