Hi William, I have a bold idea ...
I switched to Ubuntu a couple of months ago. Before that I was using Fedora Core 6, an rpm based distribution. I had installed nix on a separate partition, so it survived the change of distributions, and happily kept working. Since, as you have noted, there is no debian distribution for Nix yet, I wouldn't know how to upgrade. (This is the problem of deploying a deployment system with another deployment system.) So I will start lobbying to include ubuntu in our buildfarm. But that is of little help for you now, in the short term. So here is the bold plan: If I could give you a copy of my /nix directory, you wouldn't have any installation problems. At least we could try it. Indeed, I have just made a tarball of my /nix dir and uploaded it to my public_html dir: http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~eelco/nix.tar.gz This should be unpacked in /nix The only problem is that I have not included the /nix/store directory since that is some 6GB. So I'm pretty sure this is going to cause a problem with the database in /nix/var, since that now expects a store filled with stuff. Maybe one of the nice people at nix-dev can tell you how to reset the database? More generally, all state information (profiles, derives, ...) should be deleted. -- Eelco On 6/27/07, William Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As usual... I am now lost in a spiral of building and installation issues on linux. I just want to install Stratego.. but I'm using Ubuntu (a very popular distro and the standard in my department) but it doesn't do RPMs and it doesn't have Nix. Since you use the Nix, which is non-standard, I have to install it. The only way to do that I can see is by a source install, so I have to build it. But then I start getting lots of inscrutable errors from the compilation, like "The C++ preprocessor /lib/cpp fails the sanity check... see config.log for more detials". BUt of course, config.log contains hundreds of lines of info, none of which seem related. I'll get there eventually, but this is truly horrible. William
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