Almost certainly an image/vm mismatch.
I am a windows expert and moderately competent in Ubuntu.
My practice is to grab one of the one-click distributions and put my image there. I've been teaching my kids using Stephane's Robot's book. I used the One-click Seaside. We put it on a USB key and move it from Windows to Linux depending on what machine is available.
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Ricardo Moranrichi.moran@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I'm starting to work on Linux, I installed Ubuntu 9.04 and I was trying to install Etoys and Squeak. I should tell you: I am a Windows user with no experience in Linux. I downloaded the EtoysInstaller.deb from squeakland and it worked fine. Then I tried to install squeak following the instructions I found in http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3616. This also worked, I typed squeak in the terminal and Squeak opened. Then I tried to use one of my own images in which I usually work (on Windows), so I opened it using the command "squeakvm". The image worked almost fine, the only problem I found was that the buttons on the "Sugar Navigator Flap" wasn't displayed correctly. Then I tried to open Etoys using the menu "Applications->Education->eToys" but it didn't open anymore. I went to /usr/share/etoys and tried to open the etoys.image with squeakvm and it opened with an error: "A primitive has failed" and the display all wrong (I had to redraw the screen by clicking on "display mode->scale to fit"). I tried reinstalling Etoys but the Package Installer tells me that "A later version is already installed". I suppose the Etoys image needs a different vm but I don't know where to find it. What do you think I should do?