[Fluxus] installing fluxus from source in ubuntu 7.10 gutsy?

[Dave Griffiths]

I've had problems with this in the past - I think if you delete
/usr/local/lib/plt and reinstall plt-372 and fluxus it might just work...

> Ok, I've downloaded and installed version 372 of PLT but I'm still
> getting the same error.
> I wasn't sure how to correctly uninstall the version of plt I
> installed before, make and make install didn't complain about it but
> could that be the problem?
>
> On Jan 31, 2008 6:15 PM, Dave Griffiths <dave at pawfal.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 17:25 -0600, Jaime Villarreal wrote:
>> > Hi there. I recently discovered the fluxus project and I'm really
>> > anxious to try it out.
>> > After installing I receive the following error whenever I try to run
>> fluxus
>> >
>> > #f::0: compile: bad syntax; function application is not allowed,
>> > because no #%app syntax transformer is bound in: (define
>> > fluxus-collects-location "/usr/local/lib/plt/collects/")
>> >
>> > I'm running Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10. I'm relatively new to linux but I
>> > decided to install Fluxus from source as is recommended on the home
>> > page.
>> > I installed all the dependencies like this...
>> >
>> > sudo apt-get install libode0-dev libode-doc libode0debian1 fftw3
>> > fftw3-dev jackd libsndfile1 libsndfile-dev liblo0 liblo0-dev
>> > libglew1.4 libglew1.4-dev libxaw7 libxaw7-dev libtiff4 libtiff4-dev
>> >
>> > Then I downloaded the svn of plt and followed the install instructions
>> > in the Fluxus README
>>
>> This is where you went wrong - faulty docs, sorry.
>> Try version plt 372 (source) instead of svn.
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> dave
>>
>>
>


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