I liked the launcher a lot, but It took me a while to get a version working out-of-the-box on Ubuntu.
It's not available with the VM on the /download page for Linux. My preferred choice would be the PPA anyway, as I like to keep stuff under APT control, but I had to dig a lot to find a sources.list entry combination that worked: not all packages are available on all repositories, and some old repos have invalid crypto signatures. In the end, what worked was:
- Xenial AND Trusty
- Disabled signatures checking (at my own risk):
sudo apt -o Acquire::AllowInsecureRepositories=true \
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- Finally:
sudo apt install pharo-vm-core pharo-launcher
But if I try to load a Pharo 5.0 image (created from the launcher's list, marked as beta), I get this on the terminal:
"This interpreter (vers. 6505) cannot read image file (vers. 6521)."
Pharo 4.0 is the most recent on that list that works, at least that I could find -- there are too many branches under Pharo Jenkins for instance, and I couldn't find a suitable image there.
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