Hi Giovanni, I usually compile Guile from the source code myself. On certain machines, you may need to tweak a few lines during the build process, but Guile 1.8 or Guile 1.6 still compiles well on most systems.
Best wishes, --Joris On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 12:55:27PM +0100, Giovanni Piredda wrote: > I would like to try the graphing command with the SVN version of > TeXmacs (revision 12509). I have a question on installation. > > > As far as I understand, I have to compile it from source; for this I > need Guile 1.8. > > How do I install Guile 1.8 without affecting the rest of my system > (Xubuntu 18.04) where I have a more recent version of Guile which I > want to keep as "default"? I have tried to do it with the package > manager (I must have downloaded the package some time ago, as I > found it on Synaptic!) and I get the following error message: > > E: /var/cache/apt/archives/guile-1.8-dev_1.8.8+1-8ubuntu3-bionic_amd64.deb: > trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/guile-config', which is also in > package guile-2.0-dev 2.0.13+1-5ubuntu0.1 > > which seems sensible. A brief search on the Internet did not help. > Thanks in advance for your suggestions. > > > Giovanni > > > _______________________________________________ > Texmacs-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
