installing Squeak on linux

Damien Cassou damien.cassou at gmail.com
Wed Apr 4 21:15:51 UTC 2007


What distribution do you have ? You can try:

deb http://ftp.squeak.org/debian/ testing main

Some distributions have a squeak-vm package in one of their repositories.

I always compile squeak myself to get the last vm. http://squeakvm.org/unix/

Keep us informed.

2007/4/4, Ralph Boland <rpboland at gmail.com>:
> I always have problems installing Squeak on linux and
> upgrading to Squeak 3.9 from Squeak 3.8 is no different.
> In fact, so far, this time around I have failed.
>
> On the Squeak download page  ( www.squeak.org/Download)
> is says to download three files:
>       the virtual machine (done),
>       the image file (done),
>      and the Sources file (I don't see this file anywhere) on this page.
>      (I believe that I can use the 3.8 sources file here but I must need
>      to fetch a changes file somewhere?????
>
> Upon downloading the virtual machine file and untaring it I scanned
> the INSTALL file.  It says:
>     "
>             If you don't already have the image/changes files
>             corresponding to version X.Y then you also need to fetch:
>                   Squeak-X.Y-image.tar.gz
>     "
>
>  I don't see this file anywhere.
>
> Each previous time I installed Squeak the inisqueak command failed
> to be installed.  I hope at least that this problem is fixed this time
> around
> but haven't reached this point yet.
> Can someone tell me what I am supposed to do now?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ralph Boland   (Yearning for the day when I can do a confusion free Squeak
> install)
>
>
>
>
>


-- 
Damien Cassou



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