Why use a special Pharo VM when you can use LibC via UFFI from inside the image ? UFFI even offers partial wrapper to LibC. We prefer afterall to move things outside the VM and inside the image as much as we can to offers us a greater deal of flexibility.

On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 12:45 PM Cyril Ferlicot D. <cyril.ferlicot@gmail.com> wrote:
Le 05/10/2017 �� 15:46, Holger Freyther a ��crit��:
>
> Hi!
>
>
> for a brief moment you really scared me. I thought you referred to RedHat Linux 6 which was released in 1999 but you are referring to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
>
> As it turns out we have "latest" (as soon as a commit is made to pharo-vm.git) and hand curated "stable" (hand created source tarballs, rebuilt from a git commit of opensmalltalk-vm) for RHEL6 and CentOS 6.
>
> CentOS 6.x:
>
> # Add the repo
> $ yum-config-manager --add-repo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/pharo:/latest/CentOS_6/devel:languages:pharo:latest.repo
>
> OR (for stable):
>
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/pharo:/latest/CentOS_6/devel:languages:pharo:stable.repo
>
> # Install 32bit packages (with X11 dependency for *-ui or not)
>
> $ yum install pharo6-32-ui.i686 or pharo6-32.i386
>
> # Install 64bit packages
>
> $ yum install pharo6-64-ui.x86_64 pharo6-64.x86_64
>
>

Hi,

Maybe the instructions for CentOS and RHEL could be added to the linux
download page of pharo.org?


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