Hi Eduardo,

Sadly, as far as I know, PPA are outdated, at least for pharo-launcher.
That���s why it does not work. You have an old version using an old VM unable to open recent images.
you should use http://files.pharo.org/platform/launcher/Pharo-linux-1.0.1.zip for now.

Christophe

Le 30 nov. 2017 �� 00:25, Eduardo de Oliveira Padoan <eduardo.padoan@gmail.com> a ��crit :

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 \
                                     -o Acquire::AllowDowngradeToInsecureRepositories=true \
                                     update
- 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.


Att,

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 5:13 PM Sean P. DeNigris <sean@clipperadams.com> wrote:
demarey wrote
> Maybe it could be related to this bug:
> https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-launcher/issues/52

It is a different bug in the same behavior.

The easy workaround is to manually create a pharo.version file for the
offending image.

As to the bug���

The immediate problem turned out to be that I had a startup error in certain
images due to a startup script that only worked in more recent Pharo
versions. So, suggestion #1: check that pharo.version has actually been
created, and if not produce a better error message. Also, ideally there
should probably also be a timeout in determining the image version because
sometimes the process returns without creating the file and other times it
doesn't return at all.

However, even after disabling the startup scripts, I was only able to
generate pharo.version by replacing
"~/Documents/Pharo/vms/private/6505/Pharo.app" with
"~/Documents/Pharo/vms/30-x86/Pharo.app", so there does also seem to be
something fishy with the 6505 VM



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