Has anyone succesfully installed squeak on RH 8.0?

Nevin Pratt nevin at smalltalkpro.com
Thu Jan 9 05:31:54 UTC 2003


Correct.  It's not an RPM.  But it works fine on RH 8.  Just gunzip it 
and go.

Nevin


Brad Fuller wrote:

>Thanks Nevin,
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>I didn't see any RPM distribution there. I was, like Henry, was looking
>for the libffi.so.1 that the RPM distributions depend on. Do you have
>that or know where we could obtain it?
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>Brad Fuller
>Sonaural Audio Studios
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
>>[mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
>>Behalf Of Nevin Pratt
>>Sent: 2003-January-08 07:19 PM
>>To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>>Subject: Re: Has anyone succesfully installed squeak on RH 8.0?
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>>Eeek, sorry.  I left the "html" off the end.  Try this...
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>>   http://www.smalltalkpro.com
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>>Then just click the "Downloads" button.
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>>Or else try this:
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>>   http://www.smalltalkpro.com/downloads.html
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>>Nevin
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>>Brad Fuller wrote:
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>>>Hi Nevin,
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>>>I had the exact same problem, so I installed them all from the tars. 
>>>I'd like to get the RPMs working too. Unfortunately, when I 
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>>went to the 
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>>>link you provided, your server came back with:
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>>>"The object you requested was not found on this server."
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>>>Brad Fuller
>>>Sonaural Audio Studios
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>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>>>>[mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
>>>>Behalf Of Nevin Pratt
>>>>Sent: 2003-January-08 06:07 PM
>>>>To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>>>>Subject: Re: Has anyone succesfully installed squeak on RH 8.0?
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>>>>I do.
>>>>
>>>>You can download what I am using from:
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>>>>  http://www.smalltalkpro.com/downloads
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>>>>There's nothing special about downloading it from my site.
>>>>You can also 
>>>>get it from about anywhere.  But at least from my site you 
>>>>know exactly 
>>>>what I am using.  And it works fine on RH 8.0.
>>>>
>>>>Also, my download page mentions that Squeak is in the "ports"
>>>>collection 
>>>>of FreeBSD, thus indicating that FreeBSD requires a different 
>>>>VM binary 
>>>>than Linux.  Well, interestingly enough, the Linux binary I'm using 
>>>>under RH 8.0 runs on my FreeBSD box as well, with no changes.
>>>>
>>>>Nevin
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>>>>synthespian wrote:
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>>>>>Hello --
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>>>>>I've downloaded the rpms in order to install Squeak on a Redhat 8.0
>>>>>box, but the installation failed due to lack of the libffi.so.1 
>>>>>library. I can't seem to find this package, either.  Has 
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>>anyone got 
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>>>>>Squeak up an running on Redhat 8.0?  Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>>Henry
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