Don't be silly, of course it works. Hundreds of people have these, 99% of all servers are Linux, as are 99% of all CI jobs.
Running Linux servers requires a certain level of expertise. $ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS \n \l $ uname -a Linux audio359 4.15.0-39-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 23 15:48:01 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ curl get.pharo.org/64/70+vm | bash % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 3054 100 3054 0 0 32147 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 32147 Downloading the latest 70 Image: http://files.pharo.org/get-files/70/pharo64.zip Pharo.image Downloading the latest pharoVM: http://files.pharo.org/get-files/70/pharo64-linux-stable.zip pharo-vm/pharo Creating starter scripts pharo and pharo-ui $ ./pharo Pharo.image printVersion [version] 'Pharo7.0.2' 'Pharo-7.0.2+build.152.sha.890f474a81f116ead0e68c8de77790aef4e9a752 (64 Bit)' $ ./pharo Pharo.image eval '42 factorial' 1405006117752879898543142606244511569936384000000000 Many people are about your age, BTW. > On 1 Apr 2019, at 15:06, horrido <horrido.hobb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This issue bit me in the ass before, but I forgot. Yes, I had a senior > moment. > > The issue is this: When I tried to run Pharo under Ubuntu Server 18.04 at > OVH last year, it failed. I had to fall back to Ubuntu Server 16.04. > > This week, I tried to run Pharo under Ubuntu Server 18.04 at Google Cloud > Platform and it failed. Again, I had to fall back to Ubuntu Server 16.04. > > Why does this issue keep biting me in the ass??? Because I'm 65 and my brain > is dying. > > The bigger issue is this: Hosting services like Digital Ocean, OVH, and > Google Cloud Platform are becoming increasingly important in the enterprise > space. If Pharo can't run on these server operating systems, it's going to > be a black eye for the language. We can get away with not supporting this > for now, but it will eventually catch up with us. > > At Google Cloud Platform, for example, the user can choose from this list of > hosts: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (Stretch), CentOS 6, CentOS 7, various versions of > CoreOS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Minimal, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Minimal, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS > Minimal, Ubuntu 18.10 Minimal, various versions of Red Hat, various versions > of SUSE, various versions of Window, and so on. It's a long list. *I > strongly suspect that many of these are unusable with Pharo.* > > How to address this? I don't know. But if it's not a major problem now, it > will be. It's bitten me in the ass twice, and I can't be alone. > > I'm giving a fair warning to everyone. Don't lash back at me – I'm just the > canary in the coal mine. > > > > > Tim Mackinnon wrote >> Come on, let’s try not to be dismissive , we’ve all had that annoying >> moment where something doesn’t work. >> >> Richard, was this installed with zero conf or Launcher, and as mentioned - >> a Linux distro is going to be helpful. >> >> I’m assuming it worked before at some point for you right? But was that v6 >> and now you’re trying v7? >> >> Tim >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On 31 Mar 2019, at 23:46, john pfersich < > >> jpfersich@ > >> > wrote: >>> >>> What Linux (distro and version) and which version of Pharo. You couldn’t >>> supply less information if you tried. >>> >>> >>> /*—————————————————-*/ >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> https://boincstats.com/signature/-1/user/51616339056/sig.png >>> See https://objectnets.net and https://objectnets.org >>> >>>> On Mar 31, 2019, at 14:21, Richard Kenneth Eng < > >> horrido.hobbies@ > >> > wrote: >>>> >>>> I just installed Pharo under Linux and when I start it up, I get: >>>> >>>> Error: External module not found >>>> >>>> It doesn't matter how I install Pharo. > > > > > > -- > Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html