[Squeakland] Mozilla Plugin and Debian (Linux)

[JP Glutting]

Thanks Bert.

I have been trying to install with the rpms (converted to .debs with
alien). It seems that these packages do not include the
SqueakPlugin.image file (I am not sure if they are supposed to...).

I downloaded the file that you linked, and copied it into
/usr/lib/squeak/, then ran /usr/lib/squeak/3.7b-5sl/npsqueakrun

When running Faceball in the browser, I get this on the terminal:

jpg at kidbox:~$ firefox
don't create MySqueak link on desktop
My Squeak -> /home/jpg/.npsqueak/My Squeak
start squeak from plugin
XShmAttach: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)
X Error of failed request:  BadShmSeg (invalid shared segment parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request:  132 (MIT-SHM)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  3 (X_ShmPutImage)
  Segment id in failed request:  0xc0000d
  Serial number of failed request:  69
  Current serial number in output stream:  69

The screenin blank, with "Done" in the status bar.

Does that help anyone?

Thanks for all your time.

Cheers,

JP



On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 18:47:30 +0100, Bert Freudenberg <bert at squeakland.de> wrote:
> You have the wrong image, which appears to be the normal developer
> image requiring a changes and a sources file. The image to be used with
> the plugin does not need either. Download this:
> 
>         http://squeakland.org/installers/SqueakPlugin.image.zip
> 
> Unzip, and move the image into your .npsqueak directory. Now everything
> should be fine.
> 
> To install that image for every user, copy it to /usr/lib/squeak using
> the name that npsqueakrun expects.
> 
> You also might try to zap everything and install from the updated
> sources Jens sent you off-list, or from his RPMs (use "alien" to
> convert them to debs).
> 
> - Bert -
> 
> Am 26.01.2005 um 17:36 schrieb JP Glutting:
> 
> > Ok. I have a .npsqueak directory, with two empty directories in it:
> > secure/ and untrusted/, so it looks like the process got strated and
> > stopped at  some point.
> >
> > The file /usr/lib/squeak/3.6-3/npsqueak.so calls
> > /usr/lib/squeak/3.6-3/npsqueakrun, which I do have, so that seems to
> > be fine.
> >
> > When I run npsqueakrun by hand, it says it can't find
> > /usr/lib/squeak/squeak.image, which is because I don't have one. I do
> > have squeak.image.gz, which is a symlink to Squeak3.6-5429.image.gz.
> > Can squeak use compressed images? Should it try?
> >
> > I am going to try unzipping it and symlinking the result...
> >
> > Well, that was not so great. It complained that it could not find
> > /usr/lib/squeak/3.6-3/SqueakV3.sources (which it didn't, because the
> > sources file is in /usr/lib/squeak, one directory up), and then opened
> > the whole Squeak desktop in the browser.
> >
> > Now I symlink SqueakV3.sources from the 3.6-3 sub-directory:
> >
> > Nope, now it complains that it cannot locate SqueakPlugin.changes. I
> > can't locate it either, so I am oging to call it quits. I have the
> > flu, so when I am feeling a little better, I am just going to purge
> > all the squeak .debs and try again with version 3.7.5-beta.
> >
> > Thanks again for all the help!
> >
> > JP
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 00:23:46 +0100, Bert Freudenberg
> > <bert at squeakland.de> wrote:
> >> Am 25.01.2005 um 16:33 schrieb JP Glutting:
> >>
> >>> I am still trying to get the Squeak plugin to work in Debian. I have
> >>> version 3.6-3 installed (from .debs), and the desktop environment
> >>> works fine.
> >>>
> >>> I downloaded a npsqueak-image installer, and went through the install
> >>> script to find out what to do. It seems that there is a script in
> >>> /usr/lib/squeak called npsqueakregister that needs to be run. (the
> >>> install script actually was looking in /usr/local/lib/, but the .debs
> >>> put squeak in /usr/lib, which should be fine).
> >>>
> >>> The npsqueakregister script looks for
> >>> /usr/lib/squeak/3.6-3/npsqueak.so, which I have.
> >>>
> >>> The script, when run, gives this message:
> >>>
> >>> File not found: /usr/lib/squeak/3.6-3/npsqueak.so
> >>> Aborting.
> >>>
> >>> It seems that the permissions on npsqueak.so are not set correctly.
> >>> It
> >>> is set with permissions 644 [rw-r--r--], when the file needs to be
> >>> executable. The npsqueakregister script is actually checking to see
> >>> if
> >>> npsqueak.so is an executable file (if [ ! -x "$NPSQUEAK_SO" ] ), and
> >>> exits with an error message if it is not.
> >>>
> >>> I changed the permissions on npsqueak.so [chmod a+x npqueak.so]
> >>>
> >>> The npsqueakregister script then produces:
> >>>
> >>> Registering /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/npsqueak.so
> >>> create symbolic link `/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/npsqueak.so' to
> >>> `/usr/lib/squeak/3.6-3/npsqueak.so'
> >>> Registering /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/npsqueak.so
> >>> create symbolic link `/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/npsqueak.so'
> >>> to
> >>> `/usr/lib/squeak/3.6-3/npsqueak.so'
> >>> Registering /usr/lib/mozilla-snapshot/plugins/npsqueak.so
> >>> create symbolic link `/usr/lib/mozilla-snapshot/plugins/npsqueak.so'
> >>> to `/usr/lib/squeak/3.6-3/npsqueak.so'
> >>>
> >>> Which looks great. However, I still can't run any .pr files in the
> >>> browser. I just get a blank, white page, with the message "Done" in
> >>> the status bar. This is what happened with OS X when the plugin was
> >>> not working as well.
> >>>
> >>> On the positive side, Squeak is registered as a plugin (it registers
> >>> sts, sqo and pr files, while OS X only only registers sts and pr
> >>> files).
> >>
> >> Rejoice, you're almost there :-)
> >>
> >>> I am going to keep twiddling with this, and try to figure out what
> >>> went wrong. Any suggestions welcome.
> >>
> >> So the plugin is loaded, it now tries to start the VM with image file.
> >> After you tried to load a project in the browser, did the .npsqueak
> >> directory in your home get created? If yes, then the npsqueak.so
> >> plugin
> >> succesfully executed the npsqueakrun script in
> >> /usr/lib/squeak/<version>. If not, make sure that file exists (you
> >> might want to look into the npsqueak.so binary for which script it
> >> actually tries to execute using
> >>
> >>         strings npsqueak.so | grep npsqueakrun
> >>
> >> The script creates some directories in $HOME/.npsqueak and copies the
> >> plugin image file from /usr/lib/squeak. After that, it executes the
> >> regular Squeak VM with the image copy, but redirects the main window
> >> into the browser page.
> >>
> >> You might try a newer VM (3.7b-5 from http://squeak.hpl.hp.com/unix/)
> >> and the current image
> >> (http://squeakland.org/installers/SqueakPlugin.image.zip, extract that
> >> into ~/.npsqueak/).
> >>
> >> I'm cc'ing Jens Lincke who is currently updating the Squeakland Linux
> >> packages (the download at squeakland is rather dated). We fixed a few
> >> oddities and might even have some shiny new debs for you :-) Also
> >> cc'ed
> >> is Ian so he knows what's going on.
> >>
> >> - Bert -
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary
> > depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
> >
> 
> 


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