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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