On 3/25/09, Jerome Peace <peace_the_drea...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I am old to squeak but new to unix systems. > > I have been able to install etoys successfully from the squeakland web site. > And I have been able to download and unpack zip files for etoys-dev and > squeak 3.10.2 from archives. The files are in a personal home directory. > > I am ignorant in how to tell my Ubuntu 8.04 system how to connect an image > file with a squeak vm. (E.G. the vm that runs the installed etoys for > example.) > > What do I need to know?
Well, I always use the command line because I find the UI cumbersome, but there's a learning curve there. I also usually use a simple window manager such as IceWM rather than the whole Gnome environment because all I ever do is check email and run Squeak. Usually the "shell" used is called "bash", which makes a good Googlable term. Install and run xterm or rxvt using the package manager (because the default gnome-terminal sucks). Type in: $ cd (directory where your image is) $ squeak someImageFile.image Usually, the directory where the image is would be "~/squeak" where "~" is your "home directory". If you saved the image on your desktop, then it would be in "~/Desktop/folderName". Oh, to install Squeak, I just usually manually chuck the executable, plugins, image and sources in the same folder. This is because I often have multiple versions of the Squeak VM around. If the squeak executable is in your "current" directory, you need to use: $ ./squeak someImageFile.image because otherwise "bash" won't look at the current directory for executables (a security feature). For fancy stuff you can do with Squeak, type: $ squeak --help which gives you VM options. Welcome to Linux, land of poverty-stricken programmers and crazy socialists ;-). Gulik. -- http://gulik.pbwiki.com/ _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
