On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Norbert Hartl <norbert at hartl.name> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 08:20 +1000, Edward Stow wrote:
>  > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Miguel Enrique Cobá Martínez
>  > <m.coba.m at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > > >
>  > >  I use squeak inside a chroot as per instructions here:
>  > >
>  > >  http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html
>  > >
>  > >  as there is no 64 bit perfect setup for squeak
>  > >
>  > >  I installed squeak inside the chroot with the repositories from squeak.org
>  > > (section other OSes)
>  > >
>  > >  hope this help
>  >
>  > Yes is does -- it does confirm that a simple install is not available
>  > for amd64 architecture.  By simple, I mean  sudo apt-get install
>  > squeak.
>
>  > And it doesn't.  I have a hard time convincing my sys admins and their
>  > bosses to take seriously a package that does not have a
>  > straightforward install process on 64 bit machines.
>  >
>  > chroot'ing in their words is for 'legacy and un-supported systems that
>  > should not be installed on a production server.'
>  >
>  > I am trying to set up a demonstration server that will allow squeak
>  > with seaside to be considered a viable alternative.  I should say that
>  > I'm not a sys admin and am feeling very frustrated with the lack of
>  > installable options.
>  >
>  > So please ... could those that maintain the debian and / or other os
>  > vms create an installable 64 bit deb and / or rpm.
>  >
>
>  At the moment there is no packaged version which does compile on amd64.
>  Otherwise it would be quite simple to create such a package. You can run
>  32 bit applications on 64 bit but on a debian package level this is not
>  an easy task to achieve.
>
>  If you want to setup an demonstration server why you don't take the
>  installer script which comes with the vm package on squeakvm.org ? This
>  installs the 32bit binaries on your machine.
>
>  I created a package for you which is a amd64 target ubuntu package which
>  contains the binaries from the 3.10.1 i686 package from squeakvm.org.[1]
>  It installs into /opt/squeak. You can use use
>
>  /opt/squeak/bin/squeakvm YOUR-IMAGE
>
>  to start squeak. Don't be misled by the ubuntu in the package name. It
>  should install on debian as well.
>
>  Let me know if you have trouble using it.
>
>  [1] http://selfish.org/files/deb/squeak-vm-i686_0.1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
>
>  Norbert

Thanks that works.

But this is really a plea --- My guess is that 95% of potential users
would have stopped by now  when apt-get install does not work.

-- 

Edward Stow