Hi Tim

Here are my notes on installing Pharo in a DigitalOcean Ubuntu droplet.

I usually go thru a Windows Command prompt box having installed xfec4��in the ubuntu droplet, but the command line connect and graphical remote may be easier for a Linux users.��my��ssh public key is also in the DO droplet��

Now the first��step for me is a installing Pharo��launcher thru command line and then everything��is thru graphical interface

Installing and checking Pharo-Launcher,��Installing Pharo 8 64 bit from pharo.org (instructions as on Pharo.org)
1. In Windows 10 command prompt connect thru > ssh root@<Droplet-ip>
2. cd
3. curl -o pharo-launcher.zip -L https://files.pharo.org/pharo-launcher/linux64
4. unzip pharo-launcher.zip
�� or thru the GUI-> extract here
�� (pharo-launcher files will be extracted in ./pharo-launcher)
Now while connected to the linux graphical interface thru windows remote terminal and in the GUI
5. Create a icon on desktop thru right-click ��Create Launcher�� for pharo-launcher
6. Create pharo images thru pharo-launcher��

hope this is of use

Sanjay Minni

On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 at 16:31, Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote:

Hi everyone - its been a few year since I last hosted a little Pharo web app - and the last time I did, Sven pointed me to DigitalOcean and creating a tiny instance and configuring an Ubuntu server and then copying a pharo image on to that. It recall it wasn��t too bad, albeit a bit fiddly��

Now several years later - I can��t recall the exact steps, and vaguely recall there was something about 32bit vs 64bit setup etc - but am wondering if things have advanced a bit and whether its much simpler these days? I��ve seen references to Docker images for Pharo, and am wondering if now that is a prime time way to easily get a small demo application up and running with minimal fuss.

Does anyone have advice - or something to point me to?

Ideally I want to hook something up in Gitlab CI do deploy to this thing automatically (this is where I got to a few years ago - but in picking things back up I am hoping this has all got much simpler).

Tim