[Newbies] Re: [Etoys] can't install Squeak on Ubuntu 7.10 -- could not finddisplay driver vm-display-X11

[johnps11 at bigpond.com]

ALSA is the sound drivers and associated support files.  You won't get
sound to work without them.  Have patience,  sometimes getting sound
working in Linux is an exercise in being persistent and methodical.

John


> Offray,
>
>
> Thanks for your help. I tried the instructions on your website but it
> still didn't work. I got a lot of errors during the configure that it
> couldn't find a great number of header files
>
> I have a Centrino Duo processor on my laptop and I am running Ubuntu
> 7.10
>
> I finally did get it to work by installing the
>
> Squeak-3.9-8.i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz tarball from squeak.org
>
> I had tried this earlier and it had installed successfully but the sound
> didn't work. It was extremely frustrating because I was showing our
> activities to some education groups yesterday and I could show off our
> cool audio features.
>
> Perhaps the sound didn't work because I did not have the
> build-essentials package, the alsaplayer-common or alsaplayer-alsa
> packages installed. Maybe this should have been obvious to me but I am
> less than a Linux guru.
>
> OLE Nepal is creating activities for the entire math and English
> curriculum for grades 2 and 6. We're trying to make the activities cool
> enough that kids learn stuff but familiar to the teachers so that they
> aren't intimidated. We have 2 teachers that guide our activity
> development and they are quite awesome. Check out our current activities
> here: http://nepal.ole.org/home/?q=node/73
>
>
> On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 07:48 -0500, Offray Vladimir Luna Cardenas wrote:
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>> Hash: SHA1
>>
>> Hi Bryan,
>>
>>
>>
>> Bryan Berry wrote:
>> > I have been trying to install Squeak on Ubuntu 7.10 w/out success
>> >
>> > I was able to install it w/ Debian packages but the sound didn't work.
>> > At the advice of my colleague Luke Gorrie I tried installing it from
>> the
>> > VM-Source tarball
>> > http://ftp.squeak.org/3.9/unix-linux/Squeak-3.9-8.src.tar.gz
>> >
>> > I used the documentation in /unix/doc/HowToBuildFromSource.pdf
>> >
>> > I ran the configure script and got an error that it couldn't find
>> > npsqueak libraries.
>> >
>> > I then tried ../config/configure --without-npsqueak
>> >
>> > it configured but this showed up in the config.log
>> >
>> > configure:26825: result: ******** disabling vm-display-X11
>> >
>> > I then did make and make install
>> >
>> > Predictably, I get this error when I try to open a squeak image
>> >
>> > $ squeak olenepal-demo.4.image
>> > could not find display driver vm-display-X11; either:
>> >   - check that /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.9-8/vm-display-X11.so exists,
>> or
>> >   - use the '-plugins <path>' option to tell me where it is, or
>> >   - remove DISPLAY from your environment.
>> > Aborted (core dumped)
>> >
>> > Please assist :)
>>
>>
>>
>> When I have had this problem in the past, I solved copying npbsqueak.so
>> from other places to the proper location... It's a guess but I think
>> you can have --without-npsqueak and *at the same time* graphical
>> display. See that you get "configure:26825: result: ******** disabling
>> vm-display-X11" as a result of your compilation and also a complain
>> about the inhability to find the "vm-display-X11" driver.
>>
>> We have the installation procedure documented (in Spanish) here:
>>
>> http://www.el-directorio.org/Squeak/Instalacion#head-1575ffc64426e6e4adec2c3d873b422ef2f43c62
>>
>>
>> Notice the root permissions to run the install script, for better
>> results. My test machine for building that doc was pretty similar to
>> yours (with an older Ubuntu, but this is not a big deal)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Offray
>>
>>
>> [...]
>> >
>> > Help! Part of my job is to teach people how to use Squeak so our
>> > development team (the real programmers) can focus full-time on
>> > developing learning activities w/ Squeak. I need to get up to speed on
>> > Squeak quickly.  Thanks
>> >
>>
>> I hope this help. What learning activities and experiences are you and
>> your team working on?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Offray
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
>> Version: GnuPG v2.0.1 (GNU/Linux)
>> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
>>
>> iD8DBQFHOEulpzl8tTvDAE8RApnIAKC8zSWociq5WYOd6jR4EBTSoijqFwCeOz2d
>> OJb+i+jjcpgiW9XV6YOKNEg=
>> =ufDR
>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
> _______________________________________________
> Beginners mailing list
> Beginners at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
>