> Actually, no, because I assumed that there were broken dependancies in
> Crunchbang and it wouldn't help.  Here goes...
>
> TL;DR: I just got tangled up in missing dependancies; I think this is
> a #! problem. Thanks for the idea, though.
>
> Long version:
>
>      shadow@jenna[~/shadow/scratch/pharo4.0]%: ./pharo
>      could not find module vm-display-X11
>      [1]    4875 abort      ./pharo
>
>      (134) shadow@jenna[~/shadow/scratch/pharo4.0]%: cd bin
>
>      shadow@jenna[~/shadow/scratch/pharo4.0/bin]%: ldd vm-display-X11
>              linux-gate.so.1 (0xf776e000)
>              libpthread.so.0 => /lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf771d000)
>              libGL.so.1 => not found
>              libX11.so.6 => not found
>              libc.so.6 => /lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf7572000)
>              /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf776f000)
>
> Well outside of my comfort zone here, but a quick web search suggests
> I might want libgl1-mesa-glx or libgl1-mesa-swx11? Looking at Synaptic
> I can see a libgl1-mesa-swx11-i686:i386, so let's try that?
>
>      (100) shadow@jenna[~/shadow/scratch/pharo4.0/bin]%: sudo apt-get
> install libgl1-mesa-swx11-i686
>      Reading package lists... Done
>      Building dependency tree
>      Reading state information... Done
>      Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
>      requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
>      distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
>      or been moved out of Incoming.
>      The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
>      The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>       libgl1-mesa-swx11-i686:i386 : Depends: libgl1-mesa-swx11:i386 (=
> 8.0.5-4+deb7u2) but it is not going to be installed
>                                     Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.3.6-6~)
> but it is not going to be installed
>                                     Depends: libgcc1:i386 (>= 1:4.1.1)
> but it is not going to be installed
>                                     Depends: libstdc++6:i386 (>= 4.1.1)
> but it is not going to be installed
>                                     Depends: libx11-6:i386 but it is
> not going to be installed
>                                     Depends: libxext6:i386 but it is
> not going to be installed
>      E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>
> Okay. Hmm.  Maybe apt-get is failing to chain-install these dependancies? Maybe?
>
>      (100) shadow@jenna[~/shadow/scratch/pharo4.0/bin]%: sudo apt-get
> install libc6:i386
>      Reading package lists... Done
>      Building dependency tree
>      Reading state information... Done
>      Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
>      requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
>      distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
>      or been moved out of Incoming.
>      The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
>      The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>       libc6 : Depends: libgcc1 but it is not going to be installed
>               Breaks: libc6:i386 (!= 2.19-13) but 2.13-38+deb7u8 is to
> be installed
>       libc6:i386 : Breaks: libc6 (!= 2.13-38+deb7u8) but 2.19-13 is to
> be installed
>       libcairo2 : Depends: libfontconfig1 (>= 2.9.0) but it is not
> going to be installed
>                   Depends: libfreetype6 (>= 2.3.5) but it is not going
> to be installed
>                   Depends: libpixman-1-0 (>= 0.21.6) but it is not
> going to be installed
>                   Depends: libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4) but it is not going
> to be installed
>                   Depends: libxcb-render0 but it is not going to be installed
>                   Depends: libxcb-shm0 but it is not going to be installed
>                   Depends: libxcb1 (>= 1.6) but it is not going to be installed
>                   Depends: libxrender1 but it is not going to be installed
>       libcurl3-gnutls : Depends: libgcrypt11 (>= 1.4.5) but it is not
> going to be installed
>                         Depends: libgnutls26 (>= 2.12.17-0) but it is
> not going to be installed
>                         Depends: libgssapi-krb5-2 (>= 1.10+dfsg~) but
> it is not going to be installed
>                         Depends: libidn11 (>= 1.13) but it is not going
> to be installed
>                         Depends: libldap-2.4-2 (>= 2.4.7) but it is not
> going to be installed
>                         Depends: librtmp0 (>= 2.3) but it is not going
> to be installed
>                         Depends: libssh2-1 (>= 1.2.6) but it is not
> going to be installed
>                         Recommends: ca-certificates but it is not going
> to be installed
>       libdbus-glib-1-2 : Depends: libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.2.16) but it is not
> going to be installed
>       libglib2.0-0 : Depends: libffi5 (>= 3.0.4) but it is not going to
> be installed
>                      Depends: libpcre3 (>= 8.10) but it is not going to
> be installed
>                      Depends: libselinux1 (>= 1.32) but it is not going
> to be installed
>                      Recommends: shared-mime-info
>       libimlib2 : Depends: libbz2-1.0 but it is not going to be installed
>                   Depends: libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1) but it is not going
> to be installed
>                   Depends: libgif4 (>= 4.1.4) but it is not going to be installed
>                   Depends: libid3tag0 (>= 0.15.1b) but it is not going
> to be installed
>                   Depends: libjpeg8 (>= 8c) but it is not going to be installed
>                   Depends: libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4) but it is not going
> to be installed
>                   Depends: libtiff4 (> 3.9.5-3~) but it is not going to
> be installed
>       liblua5.1-0 : Depends: libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1) but it is not going
> to be installed
>                     Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1) but it is not going
> to be installed
>       libruby1.8 : Depends: libgdbm3 (>= 1.8.3) but it is not going to
> be installed
>                    Depends: libreadline5 (>= 5.2) but it is not going
> to be installed
>                    Depends: libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.0) but it is not going
> to be installed
>       libx11-6 : Depends: libxcb1 (>= 1.2) but it is not going to be installed
>       libxft2 : Depends: libfontconfig1 (>= 2.9.0) but it is not going
> to be installed
>                 Depends: libfreetype6 (>= 2.3.5) but it is not going to
> be installed
>                 Depends: libxrender1 but it is not going to be installed
>       libxml2 : Depends: liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20120614) but it is
> not going to be installed
>                 Recommends: xml-core but it is not going to be installed
>      E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may
> be caused by held packages.
>      sudo apt-get install libc6:i386  19.22s user 0.12s system 99% cpu
> 19.356 total
>
> ...Ooof.  Okay, giving up now. Thanks for the idea, though.
>
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 2:47 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck
> <[hidden email]>  wrote:
>> Did you try doing a "ldd" over the VM executable file so that you can find
>> the missing dependencies?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Shadowfirebird<[hidden email]>
>> wrote:
>>> Same problem. I'm afraid -- Crunchbang refuses to install libasound2:i386
>>> because it cannot fulfill the dependencies.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Jimmie Houchin<[hidden email]>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Welcome to Pharo and the Pharo community. Smalltalk/Pharo are
>>>> exceptionally empowering tools. And getting better all the time.
>>>>
>>>> My apologies for your difficulties. I personally have not seen that page
>>>> before as I already have scripts for installing all of the requisite
>>>> libraries. This script has worked for me for years on Ubuntu or other Debian
>>>> based distros. My favorite was Crunchbang.
>>>>
>>>> I did not originate this script but believe I started with I found years
>>>> ago for either Debian or Ubuntu. I cleaned it up and added to it over time.
>>>> It installs all the necessary libraries to my knowledge. Whether or not
>>>> installs more than I need I do not know. All I do know is that after running
>>>> the script Pharo runs perfectly.
>>>>
>>>> I copied all of this from my setup-pharo.sh  script.
>>>> I run this script anytime I have a fresh Linux install.
>>>> I then sudo -s and run the script.
>>>>
>>>> dpkg --add-architecture i386
>>>> apt-get update
>>>>
>>>> apt-get --yes install cmake zip bash-completion ruby git xz-utils
>>>> debhelper devscripts
>>>> apt-get --yes install libc6-dev:i386 libasound2:i386 libasound2-dev:i386
>>>> libasound2-plugins:i386
>>>> apt-get --yes install libssl-dev:i386 libssl1.0.0:i386 libssh2-1:i386
>>>> libfreetype6-dev:i386 libx11-dev:i386 libsm-dev:i386 libice-dev:i386
>>>> apt-get --yes install build-essential gcc-multilib g++
>>>> apt-get --yes install libgl1-mesa-dev:i386 libgl1-mesa-glx:i386
>>>>
>>>> Hopefully this can help your experience with Pharo and/or Squeak.
>>>>
>>>> Jimmie
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 07/25/2015 09:54 AM, Shadowfirebird wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been having trouble getting *any* sort of Smalltalk working on
>>>>> Linux.  But ultimately I got Pharo (my first choice) working on Debian
>>>>> Jessie.
>>>>>
>>>>> It wasn't terribly hard in the end, but since the instructions at
>>>>> http://pharo.org/gnu-linux-installation#64-bit-System-Setup  seem to be out
>>>>> of date, I thought it might be helpful to post something in case those in
>>>>> charge of that page would like to update.  Since there is no issue tracker,
>>>>> I assume this is a good a place as any.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ## Short Version ##
>>>>>
>>>>> * sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
>>>>> * sudo apt-get update
>>>>> * sudo apt-get install lib32zl lib32ncurses5
>>>>>
>>>>> Note that there is no ia32-libs package on Jessie, as far as I can tell.
>>>>> (I have no idea whether you actually need to install lib32ncurses5, but
>>>>> those were what apt-get suggested, and it worked.)
>>>>>
>>>>> I do have a startup error -- "MessageNotUnderstood:
>>>>> EmbeddedFreeTypeFontInstaller>>failedToOpen:Index:" -- but it doesn't seem
>>>>> to break anything.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ## Longer version / Rant ##
>>>>>
>>>>> Pharo turned out to be impossible on my netbook (where I would like to
>>>>> use it, sadly) because it is still running Crunchbang, which is Debian Woody
>>>>> under the hood. So in theory the fix from the 64bit install page should
>>>>> work.  It doesn't, though -- some sort of problem with #! I suppose
>>>>>
>>>>>      "The following packages have unmet dependacies:
>>>>>          ia32-libs: Depends: ia32-libs-i386"
>>>>>
>>>>> Squeak, as downloaded from their site, has exactly the same problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> Pharo isn't in the Debian Repository, but an old version of the Squeak
>>>>> VM -- *just* the VM -- is.  (Not sure what the point of that is.)  It
>>>>> doesn't work with the current Squeak image from the website. I did
>>>>> eventually manage to get a compatible image ... via FTP.  Good grief.  (Good
>>>>> enough to learn the ropes, I suppose.)
>>>>>
>>>>> I really didn't want to go the Gnu Smalltalk road, but in desperation I
>>>>> tried it. Under both Crunchbang and Debian Jessie, the gst-browser package
>>>>> falls over immediately when you start it, a great big error trace I won't
>>>>> bother to paste here.  These are packages in the *repository*. Is no-one
>>>>> maintaining them?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The point of this rant is to give context to the following:  thank you.
>>>>> Really, thank you, to the folks behind Pharo and everyone reading this.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is the problem with FOSS: blink, and yesterday's rave technology is
>>>>> gone. And Smalltalk is *important* -- I'm not a Smalltalk programmer, but
>>>>> every time I play with it I learn so much about OOP, programming, and good
>>>>> design of classes.  And I keep coming back to try to work with it again,
>>>>> because it offers things I want and just can't get elsewhere.  The idea that
>>>>> Smalltalk might one day just ... not run? Not worth thinking about.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Okay, broke a cardinal rule here.  Apologies for joining a mailing list
>>>>> and then immediately posting a long rant.  Going to Lurk Mode now!
>>>>>
>>>>> Shadow.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Look through time and find your rhyme / Tell us what you find / We will
>>> wait at your gate / Hoping like the blind.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Mariano
>> http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
>