After a long time I wanted to have a look at the current Pharo situation. I just downloaded the Linux 64bit version of Pharo from the web site:
-> I opened "pharo" (via a double click on the pharo application) and got a list of possible templates I could load. -> I selected Pharo 6.1 template, created an image and wanted to start that image - the initial application disappeared - but nothing happened after that. If I start the initial pharo app from a shell by hand and I want to start the selected image it seems to work. My system: Linux Mint 18.1, 64 bit -- Marten Feldtmann