I have Pharo 6.1 and Pharo 7.0 working in Ubuntu 18.04 with no trouble so far. I just downloaded the launcher from pharo.org and pulled the images down that way.
One thing I do find annoying in Ubuntu 18.04 is the number of programs (like okular) that spew warning messages out the terminal. Pharo, sadly, is one of them. Whenever a debugger window comes up in Pharo there is spewage on the terminal. But it works. On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 at 13:07, john pfersich <jpfers...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is, IMHO, is royal piece of crap. Ubuntu seems to have > abandoned programmers tools almost completely in 18.04. I’ve had more > problems with support of programming tools in 18.04, more than even > Windows. I have run ‘sudo apt install’ maybe 80 times to install tools and > libraries. Ubuntu 18.04’s hardware support is also lame compared to 16.04. > Personally , I’m not surprised that Pharo doesn’t run on 18.04. I stopped > installing 18.04 on my new machines, after all 16.04 still has a few years > of support going for it, and at least it works without hours of upgrading. > > /*—————————————————-*/ > Sent from my iPhone > https://boincstats.com/signature/-1/user/51616339056/sig.png > See https://objectnets.net and https://objectnets.org > > > On Apr 1, 2019, at 06:06, 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 > > > >
