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

[Dave Griffiths]

The main differences between b1 and rc1 are documentation (I added
fluxus/docs/fluxus-documentation.txt) and I applied your patches to
install the materials to /usr/share and make fluxus more debian package
friendly.

> hi Jaime
>
> Installing distribution packages has its advantages, such as easy
> upgrades and uninstallation.
>
> I'll have ubuntu 7.10 packages for rc1 soon, may be next week. at the
> moment I have 0.14 beta 1 which has only minor differences from the
> rc1 as far as I'm aware (Dave?)
>
> just adding
>
> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/femistofel/ubuntu gutsy main
>
> to the /etc/apt/sources.list and running
>
> sudo aptitude update
> sudo aptitude install fluxus
>
> should work, or you can do the same via gui: System > Administration >
> Software Sources > Third Party Software > Add... > copy the deb...main
> line in
>
> On 2/1/08, Jaime Villarreal <jesusjaime at gmail.com> 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
>>
>> svn checkout http://svn.plt-scheme.org/plt/trunk plt
>> cd plt/src
>> ./configure --enable-shared --prefix=/usr/local
>> make
>> sudo make install
>>
>> And finally downloaded and installed the newest version of Fluxus
>>
>> wget http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/files/fluxus-0.14rc1.tar.gz
>> tar -zxvf fluxus-0.14rc1.tar.gz
>> cd fluxus-0.14rc1
>> scons
>> sudo scons install
>>
>> Compiled and installed without errors but running fluxus in the
>> command line returns this error:
>>
>> #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/")
>>
>> Any ideas of how I can correct this?
>>
>
>
> --
> cheers,
> artm
>
> http://lab.v2.nl/
>


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