Tim,
Thank you for your comprehensive reply. I will give it a try.

My OS skills on any platform are pretty basic so it may take me some time
to sort it out. I have one other application that I have to install on the
pi and it is giving me fits as well.

BTW,  the phrase in your signature was most appropriate :-)


On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 10:33 AM tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

>
>
> > On 2020-10-26, at 9:59 AM, John-Reed Maffeo <jrmaffeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I tried to update the image to see if that would help and a got a seg
> fault.
> >
> > "Segmentation fault Mon Oct 26 09:36:22 2020
> >
> > /usr/lib/squeak/5.0-201610101924/squeak
> > Squeak VM version: 5.0-201610101924  Wed Oct 12 14:50:05 PDT 2016 gcc
> 4.9.2 [Production Spur VM]
> > Built from: CoInterpreter VMMaker.oscog-eem.1950 uuid:
> b4089b49-1494-49d2-8966-57cba5c92194 Oct 12 2016
> > With: StackToRegisterMappingCogit VMMaker.oscog-eem.1950 uuid:
> b4089b49-1494-49d2-8966-57cba5c92194 Oct 12 2016
> > Revision: VM: 201610101924 tim at Diziet.local:Documents/Squeak/Rasbian-VM/vm
> $ Date: Mon Oct 10 12:24:25 2016 -0700 $ Plugins: 201610101924
> tim at Diziet.local:Documents/Squeak/Rasbian-VM/vm $
> > Build host: Linux Goldskin 4.4.21-v7+ #911 SMP Thu Sep 15 14:22:38 BST
> 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux
> > plugin path: /usr/lib/squeak/5.0-201610101924 [default:
> /usr/lib/squeak/5.0-201610101924/]"
>
> OK, it looks like you somehow ended up running a *very* old VM that I
> built (in 2016!) for the NuScratch install in Raspbian. That might explain
> this.
>
> This is actually an artefact of the completely broken way we are bundling
> and installing linux VM packages, exposded by the Pi having an already
> installed VM in the 'proper' place but the package you downloaded relying
> on a VM in a completely different place!
>
> There's a bunch of different ways to fix this, many of them far more
> unix-expert than I can handle.  The simplest I can think of *for Raspbian*
> is to edit the file properties of an image file to pint to the newer vm.
>
> Start by opening the file browser and finding an image file. Select it and
> r-click->Properties. In that dialog you should see (about halfway down)
> 'open with' and a pulldown menu. At the bottom of that should be
> 'Customize' - click on that.
>
> Next comes a 'Choose Application' dialog and you could slelct from a wide
> variety of incorrect choices. Do not click on 'Games->Minecraft Pi' and try
> running Squeak in Minecraft. It only leads to Fear, and Fear leads to
> Eating Too Many Biscuits.
>
> Instead, click on the 'Custom Command Line' tab. Now you see a way to
> enter an actual command line (duh!). I always use the 'Browse...' button to
> open a file finder, locate the 'Squeak' shell script and choose that. The
> shell script will be in some fairly deeply buried directory within the
> package you downloaded.
>
> Once you have found it and selected it and clicked on the 'OK' button in
> the file finder the path will appear back in the 'Choose Application'
> dialog. Almost done!
>
> Now in that 'Command line to execute:' text field, add %f at the end (with
> a space after the final bit of the filename!) so that the name of the image
> file you click on will be passed to the squeak shell script. I always put
> sometihng hopefully helpful in the 'Application name' text field as well.
> Finally, click on the OK button.
>
> One last step I almost always have to do is to to set the permissions of
> the image file(s) to have 'nobody' for the 'Execute:' permission. No idea
> why.
>
> With all that done, you should find that a d-click on the image file will
> run the latest VM for you.
>
> Like I said, broken.
>
> tim
> --
> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> Programming is an art form that fights back.
>
>
>
>

-- 
John-Reed Maffeo
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