[Newbies] Installing Squeak From the Linux Command Line
Dale Wiles
Wiles at ModArnis.Com
Fri Nov 30 02:37:40 UTC 2007
I've just heard of squeak from "FLOSS Weekly" (twit.tv) and it sounds
fun, but I had a deuce of a time installing it. I'm installing from the
Linux command line (I use Slackware).
I couldn't find any instructions, and the instructions in the INSTALL
script are bilge, so I wrote my own instructions. If these are correct
(someone verify, I'm a squeak newbie) and there isn't a better set out
there, feel free to put these on the web page or wiki so others won't
have to pull out their hair.
Bad installs make a rotten first impression.
Dale
* INSTALLING SQUEAK FROM THE LINUX COMMAND LINE
This describes how to install the "Linux" distribution of Squeak.
Down load the "Linux" Virtual Machine and "Basic Image File" from
http://www.squeak.org/Download/. In my case the files were
Squeak-3.9-8.i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz and Squeak3.9-final-7067.zip
respectively.
Make a temp directory and copy the tar.gz and zip file into it.
> mkdir /tmp/squeak_tmp
> cp Squeak-3.9-8.i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz /tmp/squeak
> cp Squeak3.9-final-7067.zip /tmp/squeak
Change directory into it.
> cd /tmp/squeak_tmp
Unpack the virtual machine. This makes a directory called Squeak-3.9-8.
squeak_tmp> gzip -cd Squeak-3.9-8.i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz | tar xvf -
Unzip the platform independent files. This makes the directories
Squeak3.9-final-7067 and __MACOSX (we ignore __MACOSX).
squeak> unzip Squeak3.9-final-7067.zip
Copy the files from Squeak3.9-final-7067 to their proper place in
Squeak-3.9-8.
squeak_tmp> cp Squeak3.9-final-7067/Squeak3.9-final-7067.image \
Squeak-3.9-8/i686-pc-linux-gnu/usr/local/lib/squeak/
squeak_tmp> cp Squeak3.9-final-7067/Squeak3.9-final-7067.changes \
Squeak-3.9-8/i686-pc-linux-gnu/usr/local/lib/squeak/
squeak_tmp> cp Squeak3.9-final-7067/SqueakV39.sources \
Squeak-3.9-8/i686-pc-linux-gnu/usr/local/lib/squeak/3.9-8/
Just to make setting up projects easier, make a couple of symbolic links.
squeak_tmp> cd Squeak-3.9-8/i686-pc-linux-gnu/usr/local/lib/squeak
squeak> ln -s Squeak3.9-final-7067.image squeak.image
squeak> ln -s Squeak3.9-final-7067.changes squeak.changes
Return to /tmp/squeak_tmp/Squeak-3.9-8
squeak> cd ../../../../..
As root, run the install script (but don't read it. It lies.)
Note: "sudo" is a command that let's you run one command as root.
Squeak-3.9-8> sudo ./INSTALL
If all went well, your install is done.
If you do a "man squeak", it mentions the program "inisqueak". Don't
waste your time looking for it. It's not there.
* HOW TO START A NEW PROJECT
Make a directory to hold the project. Say project "foo" in your home
directory.
> mkdir ~/foo
Change directory in to it.
> cd ~/foo
Copy the Squeak "image" and "changes" files into the project directory.
foo> cp /usr/local/lib/squeak/squeak.image .
foo> cp /usr/local/lib/squeak/squeak.changes .
Run the squeak command:
foo> squeak
You should be good to go!
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