Since I ran into trouble with the squeak 3.10 image, I figured I'd try pharo. I had some trouble following the instructions, and thought it would be useful to report things that held me up. This might suggest changes to the documentation.
Getting pharo running wasn't entirely smooth, though that's mostly a pharo, not magma issue. Some of their instructions are a bit off, and the image wouldn't run with the VM I had. After downloading their VM (on Linux) I got it going, using the full http://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/23087/pharo1.0-10440-BETAdev09.09.1.... image. It was unclear whether I should get updates after starting the image; I did.
Now to the magma install instructions (http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2657). This time I tried using Monticello:
Step 1. "Make sure you have Monticello Configurations working (see Monticello Configurations in 3.9)." The instructions on the first link (http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6058) say "select World Menu | open... | Monticello Configurations". The pharo menus are not arranged that way. I did Tools | More | Monticello configurations. Once it opened, blank, I thought I was supposed to load or test something (wiki 6058 goes on "To load an existing configuration, select the configuration from Monticellos repository browser") in the window that I just opened. The link to MC Configurations in 3.9 says to install 2 files (in a 3.9 image); I figured I already had it, so did nothing.
So I think I could have skipped the whole MC Configurations thing, which is what I did (except it took awhile to guess that was the right move).
Step 2. I went to the MC browser and clicked on +Repository, selected http, and edited the dialog to match what page 2657 said. However, no packages appeared at the bottom of my package list (left hand pane of MC browser). I opened the repository and found r42final. Then I spent some time wondering if this had the test suite in it, and looking at some versions that had Magma Tester in the name. The description on the installation page says "Magma" houses prior "stable" releases of Magma in each of its three configurations (Client, Server and Tester). "MagmaTester" houses the prior stable releases as well as the current development release. This made me think there would be separate files for each configuration. I looked at the r42final component list, saw the tester in there, and installed it.
BTW, http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2657 in this section has steps 1 and 2 followed by steps 1 and 2.
Finally, I want to run the test suite. OSProcess does not show up in MC, and Pharo doesn't seem to have a package universe tool. The package developer advised using squeaksource, but that doesn't seem to have worked either (the pharo list has the gory details).
Ross Boylan