Assuming you have root access you need to use that access to execute

/home/ron/Squeak/Squeak-3.7-7/INTALL

(not sure if /home/ron/Squeak/Squeak-3.7-7 must be your current 
directory at the time or not -- I always make it so when I do it, though).

That at least installs the man and VM binary and related files (like 
plugins).

The INSTALL script is supposed to also install squeakini (it doesn't) 
and to copy the source, image and changes file from /home/ron/Squeak 
into roughly the same locations as the binary, to allow squeakini to 
easily set up an empty directory for the recommended install (it 
doesn't, do that either).

To do it by hand, copy the .changes, .image and .source files from 
/home/ron/Squeak/ to /usr/local/lib/squeak.  Then I recommend creating 
soft links named "squeak.image" and "squeak.changes" in the same 
directory pointing to the version-specific .image and .changes files, 
respectively.  Now you're done with root access.

In your home directory, create yet-another-directory and in that, copy 
/usr/local/lib/squeak.image and /usr/local/lib/squeak.changes locally 
into the directory, and create a soft link names SqueakV3.sources (or 
.source -- whatever it is) to the real copy at 
/usr/local/lib/squeak/SqueakV3.sources and from that point on, invoking 
squeak while in that directory should just bring the image right up, 
while leaving master copies of everything in the /usr/local/lib/squeak 
directory, useful for other users on the machine and for yourself if you 
should do something that manages to so totally trash your local image 
and changes file that you can only give up in disgust (it can happen, 
but you have to work at it :)).

Any of the above that's wrong is my fault, btw, but it's how I remember 
doing it on a new home linux box 3 days ago.

ron wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am new to Squeak and also a beginner in using the Linux operating
>system. I have successfully downloaded  these packages:
>
>PracticalSqueak.zip
>
>Squeak-3.8-6665-i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.7.7.tar.gz
>
>from this address:
>
>http://www.duke.edu/~bmp5/squeak/getsqueak.html
>
>and extracted them in a folder in my home/ron directory. But I am
>confused on what to do next. I found the squeak bin executable in:
>
>/home/ron/Squeak/Squeak-3.7-7/i686-pc-linux-gnu/usr/local/lib/squeak/3.7-7/squeak
>
>copied it to /user/local/bin/squeak
>
>then set my kde menu to /user/local/bin/squeak
>
>but Squeak doesn't start up. I am using fedora core 3
>
>Can you tell me what I am doing wrong?
>
>Your help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thank You,
>
>Ron
>
>
>  
>
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