I am using squeak on Ubuntu. Actually I find my self hearding mice.
Pharo, Cuis, Etoys, squeak itself (several variants) and now Edgar's Funsqueak
are running around here. Well, mostly they are sleeping. They are certainly not
making much noise.
I am currently trying to sort out the plugins needed for certain of the
variants.
What I know how do to do:
I have downloaded squeak etoys from squeakland (a while back) and installed it
into the shareable area. I can launch etoys with the a copy of the launcher
provided. It runs and it can make noise.
I have also downloaded via Add/Remove applications squeak 3.10.2 pretrunk.
The plugings that come with this don't include the correct sound plugin. So out
of the box it runs silently.
The launcher for 3.10.2 cab be jury rigged to use the squeakdev vm but to
include the etoys plugins. Sound worked but there were other problems. Back to
the drawing board.
I ended up copying the 3.10.2 plugins into a folder in my home directory and
adding a copy of the sound plugin from etoys. That got sound working in 3.10.2
(pre-trunk) and avoided the other problems.
Of course, trunk now has closures and needs a closure vm.
Having learned the launcher trick. I can load squeak images into my home
directory (I don't need to install them in usr space) and run them from vm's
which may also be in my home space.
Pharo comes with a closure vm for linux pre-assembled. I have that in my home
space. I run the closure squeaks (both Pharo and trunk) by creating launchers
to open clousure images with the Pharo vm. The vm directory has various
subdirectories with what look like plugin sourse and binaries in them. If I
launch with the command '.../pharovm' '.../mysqueak.image' the squeak image
will run. Silently. Sigh.
If I modify the command by adding '-plugins '.../myPluginDir' Then the image
will load, flicker and just quit. *Sigh*.
So at this stage of my knowledge I am forced to run *silently*.
That's not really acceptable. What do I need to know about plugins to get sound
working on my Ubuntu system?
Details:
Ubuntu 8.04
Pharo vm (and plugins) from pharo-vm-0.15.2d-linux.zip
Current images Squeak trunk #9371
and Fun Squeak #9400
So I am asking for help in the form of a backgrounding in plugins. How to
install them. Where to install them. How to know if they are in their right
places with all the right extentions mime types etc.
How can I command current squeaks to speak?
Yours in curiosity and service, --Jerome Peace
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