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

[Dave Griffiths]

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