Don't be silly, of course it works. Hundreds of people have these, 99% of all servers are Linux, as are 99% of all CI jobs.

Running Linux servers requires a certain level of expertise.

$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS \n \l

$ uname -a
Linux audio359 4.15.0-39-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 23 15:48:01 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ curl get.pharo.org/64/70+vm | bash
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  3054  100  3054    0     0  32147      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 32147
Downloading the latest 70 Image:
    http://files.pharo.org/get-files/70/pharo64.zip
Pharo.image
Downloading the latest pharoVM:
        http://files.pharo.org/get-files/70/pharo64-linux-stable.zip
pharo-vm/pharo
Creating starter scripts pharo and pharo-ui

$ ./pharo Pharo.image printVersion
[version] 'Pharo7.0.2' 'Pharo-7.0.2+build.152.sha.890f474a81f116ead0e68c8de77790aef4e9a752 (64 Bit)'

$ ./pharo Pharo.image eval '42 factorial'
1405006117752879898543142606244511569936384000000000

Many people are about your age, BTW.

> On 1 Apr 2019, at 15:06, horrido <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> This issue bit me in the ass before, but I forgot. Yes, I had a senior
> moment.
>
> The issue is this: When I tried to run Pharo under Ubuntu Server 18.04 at
> OVH last year, it failed. I had to fall back to Ubuntu Server 16.04.
>
> This week, I tried to run Pharo under Ubuntu Server 18.04 at Google Cloud
> Platform and it failed. Again, I had to fall back to Ubuntu Server 16.04.
>
> Why does this issue keep biting me in the ass??? Because I'm 65 and my brain
> is dying.
>
> The bigger issue is this: Hosting services like Digital Ocean, OVH, and
> Google Cloud Platform are becoming increasingly important in the enterprise
> space. If Pharo can't run on these server operating systems, it's going to
> be a black eye for the language. We can get away with not supporting this
> for now, but it will eventually catch up with us.
>
> At Google Cloud Platform, for example, the user can choose from this list of
> hosts: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (Stretch), CentOS 6, CentOS 7, various versions of
> CoreOS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Minimal, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Minimal, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
> Minimal, Ubuntu 18.10 Minimal, various versions of Red Hat, various versions
> of SUSE, various versions of Window, and so on. It's a long list. *I
> strongly suspect that many of these are unusable with Pharo.*
>
> How to address this? I don't know. But if it's not a major problem now, it
> will be. It's bitten me in the ass twice, and I can't be alone.
>
> I'm giving a fair warning to everyone. Don't lash back at me – I'm just the
> canary in the coal mine.
>
>
>
>
> Tim Mackinnon wrote
>> Come on, let’s try not to be dismissive , we’ve all had that annoying
>> moment where something doesn’t work.
>>
>> Richard, was this installed with zero conf or Launcher, and as mentioned -
>> a Linux distro is going to be helpful.
>>
>> I’m assuming it worked before at some point for you right? But was that v6
>> and now you’re trying v7?
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On 31 Mar 2019, at 23:46, john pfersich &lt;
>
>> jpfersich@
>
>> &gt; wrote:
>>>
>>> What Linux (distro and version) and which version of Pharo. You couldn’t
>>> supply less information if you tried.
>>>
>>>
>>> /*—————————————————-*/
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> https://boincstats.com/signature/-1/user/51616339056/sig.png
>>> See https://objectnets.net and https://objectnets.org
>>>
>>>> On Mar 31, 2019, at 14:21, Richard Kenneth Eng &lt;
>
>> horrido.hobbies@
>
>> &gt; wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I just installed Pharo under Linux and when I start it up, I get:
>>>>
>>>> Error: External module not found
>>>>
>>>> It doesn't matter how I install Pharo.
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html