[Newbies] Ubuntu Linux

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Mon Aug 13 17:04:36 UTC 2007


After unpacking the tarball, just rename i686-pc-linux-gnu to i686-pc- 
linux-gnulibc1 before installing. Apparently Ubuntu uses a non- 
canonical system designation, which confuses the installer.

- Bert -


On Aug 13, 2007, at 8:54 , Richard Eng wrote:

> I’m having no luck at all. I’m trying to build from sources but the  
> system
> keeps complaining that gcc can’t create executables. I tried doing  
> it as
> root but it made no difference.
>
> This is ridiculous. Everything is fighting against me. I don't want  
> to have
> to debug my C development environment. I just want to run Squeak!
>
> Why is it that everyone else has no problem running Squeak 3.9  
> under Feisty
> Fawn??? This is driving me crazy.
>
> What binaries/libraries are the Squeak VM installation looking for?
>
> Richard
>
> ----------
> Hi
>
>> No, not install from source. As I said, I tried to install
>> Squeak-3.9-8.i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz
>> ...which is the binary download from Squeak.org. And I’m using 32-
>> bit Linux
>> (Ubuntu).
>
> Ok. I see.
>
>> The Synaptic package is out of date--the latest version it has is
>> 3.8. I
>> need 3.9 (because I have development images of Seaside based on 3.9).
>
> I guess, this vm works with never images, too
>
>> This is really goofy. What can possibly be wrong with my fresh
>> Feisty Fawn
>> installation???
>
> Just do an installation from source. Download the source of the vm
> and follow the instructions in the package to install.
> It works without problems here.
>
> Good luck
> Enno
>
>
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