Squeak 2.8 Linux install problem

Avi Schwartz avi at CFFtechnologies.com
Sat Dec 9 23:11:24 UTC 2000


If I remember correctly from my install experience, the sources file is
misnamed.  It is not a tar archive, it is just a compressed file.  Just
uncompress the file and rename it to SqueakV2.sources.

Avi

David Relson wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm attempting to install Squeak on my Linux box.  I'm using
> ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/pub/Smalltalk/Squeak/2.8 as my data source.
> 
> As my first shot, I downloaded all the Squeak*2.8*rpm files.  The install
> fails (see below) due to a missing file - which is not on the ftp site.
> 
>      [root at osage Squeak]# rpm -ivh Squeak-2.8-3.i386.rpm
> Squeak-image-2.8-3.noarch.rpm
>      error: failed dependencies:
>              Squeak-sources is needed by Squeak-2.8-3
> 
> For my second shot, I figured to use tarballs.  However
> Squeak-2-sources.tar.gz appears to be corrupt:
> 
>      [root at osage Squeak]# ls -l Squeak-2-sources.tar.gz
>      -rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1361812 Dec  9 17:26
> Squeak-2-sources.tar.gz
> 
>      [root at osage Squeak]# sum Squeak-2-sources.tar.gz
>      08348  1330
> 
>      [root at osage Squeak]# tar ztvf Squeak-2-sources.tar.gz
>      tar: This does not look like a tar archive
>      tar: Skipping to next header
>      tar: 163 garbage bytes ignored at end of archive
>      tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> 
> Can someone please point me towards a better source for Squeak?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> David

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