Download for Unix

IanPiumarta has ported Squeak to many Unix platforms. The main web site for this is: http://www-sor.inria.fr/~piumarta/squeak/ Another version of the source is at SourceForge: http://squeak.sourceforge.net. It is unresolved which of these two sites will hold the canonical version.

After a while the newest version is also available from the UIUC archive or it's mirrors: http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/archive.html

There are RPM's available at: http://members.xoom.com/Pflipp/projects/squeak.html.

Sound has mixed support on Unix, depending on how much trouble you want to go to. Information is at Sound Support for Unix.

Squeak newbie GregOster ported to NetBSD-1.3/i386 and WATANABE Katsuhiro modified it for NetBSD-1.3/sparc. It is available via NetBsdSourceCode

Craig Latta has made available natively-compiled VMs for OpenBSD (2.9a, x86) and NetWinder (2.9a). They will run headless, and debugging is enabled. Gale Pedowitz is working on creating a Squeak release in the OpenBSD ports collection. Note that the NetWinder is StrongARM-based; it might make a suitable cross-compiler for the Compaq iPAQ H3600 Pocket PC (as soon as we can get one we'll know :).

BorisShingarov also has config files and precompiled binary for SCO System V. Boris tested it on OpenServer, but it will probably work on UnixWare, too.
http://members.xoom.com/usib6tfj/squeak/SysV

Bert Freudenberg is working on a Netscape plugin: http://wwwisg.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De/~bert/squeak/plugin/download.html

Problems and Solutions under Unix

• Make sure both your image and changes file are writable as well as readable. The sources and executable file may be safely readonly.
• Unless you have specifically set up sound, you should probably set the enableSounds preference to false.
• Learn about the -memory flag when starting the VM. In short, if you are getting "out of memory" errors within Squeak, you might try adding -memory to your commandline. For example, "Squeak -memory 10m work.image".
• You might want to enable CrLfFileStream; this will allow you to have text files that you can access with standard Unix tools. To enable CrLfFileStream, change the concreteStream method of FileStream.
• For VM plugins such as Squeak3D to work, you need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the directory containing the plugins. Plugins are named with a .so ending.
• If you need to run Squeak remotely you should get VNC from http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ because that's way faster than the normal X protocol for bitmaps.- Any other Unix specific problems people have been having?
  

Problems and Solutions under Linux in Particular

• If you compile in Lex Spoon's sound code, he asks that you please read the directions carefully :).
• Any other Linux specific problems people have been having?

Other Unix related Stuff