Hi Bill,

I think for installation you can ignore the minor version differences.
If you untared the archives in some tmp directory, I guess you could do
something like

find . -type d -path '*usr/local' -exec cp -vR {} /usr \;

from within that tmp directory to install it into /usr/local

Maybe you also need to correct some permissions to use that installation
as an ordinary user and you have to have /usr/local/bin in your path. As
I recall you should then be able to invoke inisqueak (which installs a
fresh working copy of the squeak image for you) and then do a squeak
{nameoftheimagefile}.image to have squeak running.

Hope this helps a bit,
Alex

Bill Schwab schrieb:
> Hello all,
> 
> I grabbed what I believe are the correct archives from 
> 
>   http://www.squeakvm.org/unix/
> 
> but something doesn't quite look right to me - probably my fault.  For
> example, each of
> 
>    Squeak-3.9-8.i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz
>    Squeak-3.9a-7024.image.tar.gz
>    Squeak-3.sources.tar.gz
> 
> have an install script that at least looks the same to me, suggesting
> that they should be unpacked in the same place, making one script with
> all the files for the vm, image, and sources.  But there are
> version-specific paths that might be trying to get me to separate them. 
> Should I unpack so that everything is "aligned" (e.g. one copy of the
> install script in the directory structure) or respect the minor version
> number in the path names in the archives?
> 
> The next question is where to unpack.  Do the files belong in any
> particular place, or can they be placed anywhere and then deleted after
> running the script?
> 
> In summary, I am trying to move beyond simply getting it to work to
> (hopefully) understanding why it works and how to not leave a bunch of
> junk on the file system.
> 
> Any guidance would be appreciated.
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> 
> 
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