Question for the Unix folks: If we know that what you get via package 
install is most likely very old, would it make sense to check inside 
Squeak whether a new version is available? I.e., just a simple

(HTTPSocket httpGet: 'http://www.squeak.org/current_version') = 
SystemVersion current ifFalse:[self inform: 'A new version of Squeak has 
become available. Would you like to install it now?'].

might help get people more accustomed with later developments. Would 
that be a sensible thing to do?

Cheers,
   - Andreas

Frank Shearar wrote:
> Igor Stasenko wrote:
>> Just to let you know,
>>
>> i found that 
>> http://squeakvm.org/unix/release/Squeak-3.11.3.2135-linux_i386.sh
>> works just well out of the box on my freshly installed Ubuntu 9.10 -
>> 32bit system.
> 
> Or, if you like Squeak 3.9 (and are running Ubuntu 9.10), "apt-get 
> install squeak". Which of course is a neat illustration of what Ken 
> spoke of earlier: the version in the package often lags behind the most 
> recent version.
> 
> It's not an uncommon problem: Steel Bank Common Lisp's Ubuntu port 
> installs SBCL 1.0.29 when the latest version is 1.0.33, for instance.
> 
> frank
> 
>