Have any investigate problems? I'm a newbie, but try to detect the cause.

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 01:32, Rob Rothwell <r.j.rothwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Alt-period is the magic CTRL-BREAK keystroke you are looking for.
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> I have ALWAYS had trouble installing FreeType beyond version 0.433, plus I
> run all my images from the same VM that already had the plugins in that
> directory, so I just manually load FFI, then an old copy of FreeType (using
> Montico like you pointed out).  On the older versions, I install the
> FreeTypeSubPixelAntiAliasing as well, but if you got 0.5 to install you
> probably don't need that.
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> I think it's the plugin installation that is generally troublesome.  It used
> to work right from the Universe Browser after running Level Playing Field,
> but basically you did everything "right!"  I would just create a directory
> for your VM and plugins and set up a file association to squeak images, and
> then install just FFI and FreeType in the future and you should be good!
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> Take care,
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> Rob
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> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Andrey Larionov <anlarionov at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Hello, I'm trying to install FreeType from Universe, but no success.
>> If i select FreeType Plus 0.5 and press install button it installs FFI
>> 3.9.1, and then hangs on installation of FreeType plugin installer
>> 0.16.
>> Then i close image (force without save) and open again. And select to
>> install FreeType plugin installer 0.16 (without any other packages).
>> In this way package installs. Then is select to install FreeType
>> plugin 0.5 and click on button. It installs FFI and when starts
>> FreeType 0.5 installation it hangs.
>> Then i close image (force without save), cleans all downloaded
>> resources (.sar, .dll, .mcz in all folders) and open again. Separatly
>> install plugin installer and FFI and on FreeType 0.5 it hangs again.
>> Then i close image and clean resources. After it i download .mcz for
>> FreeType plugin from SqueakMap and put in package-cache in hope, what
>> it simply cannot download. But no success. After again cleaning and
>> restarting i install plugin installer and FFI, and then load FreeType
>> plugin from mcz using Monticelo Browser. And now it's works.
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>> Any suggestions? My enviroment: WinXP SP3 with lastest updates on
>> VirtualBox under Ubuntu 8.10. Affected vms: SqueakVM-Win32-3.10.6-bin,
>> Squeak3.10.2-7179. Affected images: sq3.10.2-7179dev09.03.1.zip,
>> sq3.9.1-7075dev09.03.1.zip, Squeak3.10.2-7179-basic.zip.
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>> As i rememeber in Squeak there is some magic keystroke, which breaks
>> currently running tasks and brings debugger. Can you referesh my
>> mind?
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>> Thanks/
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