Samantha etc. For anyone interested in installing OpenCog see the following email to the OpenCog list from David Hart who helps w/ system packaging and other dev-ops stuff for OpenCog
Note that OpenCog is still a research-grade system and doesn't do anything particularly useful once you download it, though it's capable of providing value upon appropriate integration into various applications, after doing a lot of work.... And help w/ OpenCog-based AGI R&D is of course always appreciated ;) -- Ben **** from David Hart **** New CogBuntu images are in the works in a few forms. I believe the recommended way to install OpenCog dependencies should remain using the ocpkg script on a stock install of Ubuntu LTS. Instructions are at http://wiki.opencog.org/w/Ocpkg. Virtual machine instructions are at: http://wiki.opencog.org/w/Building_OpenCog_on_Mac_OS_X http://wiki.opencog.org/w/Building_OpenCog_on_Windows The CogBuntu images for the AGI Summer School 2013 and for the iCog Labs PCs were built using ocpkg. The script has kept up with dependency changes and updates necessary for Ubuntu 14.04, but the process of finalizing ISO images and writing them to media can be fussy (Alex can attest to this!) Some final testing is still required to build these new ISO images. When Ubuntu 14.04 is released later this month, ocpkg will change its home to opencog/scripts/ocpkg, with Ubuntu 12.04 installs and updates using the old location at https://github.com/opencog/ocpkg. I'll continue to support updates to the Ubuntu 12.04 version for as long as practical. For anyone wishing to test the Ubuntu 14.04 version of ocpkg, it's at https://github.com/githart/opencog/blob/trusty/scripts/ocpkg. A beta version of Ubuntu 14.04 can be downloaded from the links at https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2014-March/000181.html or via Docker using the command 'docker importhttp://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ ubuntu-core/daily/current/trusty-core-amd64.tar.gz $USER/trusty'. Any installation of a beta version of Ubuntu can be upgraded in-place to the final version. For anyone wishing to test a Docker image, the Ubuntu 12.04 image is downloadable using 'docker pull dhart/opencog-cogserver' and the Ubuntu 14.04 image is buildable usinghttps://github.com/githart/ opencog/blob/trusty/Dockerfile. Docker images are a popular alternative to ISO images that use Linux Containers (LXC) rather than virtual machines. Anyone can run 'docker push' as easily as 'git push' to backup an entire development environment. Docker containers can also run inside of traditional Linux VMs. Either way, using Docker greatly reduces the risk of a developer losing days or weeks of productivity because of, say, a crashed machine or an otherwise damaged development environment. For anyone wishing to use Ubuntu 14.04 as a primary development environment, all of the official remixes with different desktop environments are are supported, including Kylin (中文用户的Ubuntu衍生版 本), KDE, and GNOME, plus unofficial ones like MATE (the DE popularized by Linux Mint). All of these DEs are available as packages in the archive, so it's not necessary to download special ISOs or other installers. Package names include kubuntu-desktop, gnome, mate-desktop, ubuntukylin-default-settings. Drop me note with any questions. -dave On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Samantha Atkins <sjatk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Arg. I forgot there is a vagrant image. I don't know how up to date it > is. > > On 04/01/2014 07:07 PM, Piaget Modeler wrote: > > And then place the image into a Mind Server. > > ~PM > > ------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 18:51:28 -0700 > From: sjatk...@gmail.com > To: a...@listbox.com > Subject: Re: [agi] Ubuntu support versus Linux support. > > If someone that has opencog build would just push it into a vm image or a > juju charm (ubuntu) or whatever that would save a lot of hassle. > Especially if it was one of the common image types so it could be loaded on > most any linux and in most any cloud. So can someone maybe fix up its > build script to automatically produce one of those if they haven't already? > > - s > > On 03/31/2014 11:35 PM, Ben Goertzel wrote: > > > Yeah... following the build instructions for OpenCog on Ubuntu works > fairly robustly. On other Linux versions it may require some fiddling. > If you really care you can install an Ubuntu VM, right? > > But this sort of thing is pretty common among open source Linux > software, it's not really to do with specific novel OpenCog code but rather > with various external dependencies that the code has, because of relying on > various existing code libraries... > > About nested realities, ContextLink and HypotheticalLink would be the > mechanisms used in PLN semantics for this sort of representation.... The > current PLN implementation does not support these robustly yet, but the > logic is worked out on paper... > > -- Ben > > > > On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Anastasios Tsiolakidis < > sokratis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > probably the wrong list to rant about OpenCog, unless you were edited off > the OC group like my rants usually are :) Anyway, they could start with > better Ubuntu support, right now it is a bit random building and running > the stuff, depending on which minor version of a package or another you > have. I can't see the purpose of building general intelligence with gcc > version 3.5.2.4 *only*, just like I don't see why general intelligence > should be build with "advanced" use of a bewildering mix of software tools. > I am all for integration across toolkits and systems but they should be at > least half-understandable and half portable. > > Meanwhile, it would help me immensely if someone could explain how > nested realities are represented in OpenCog, for example me talking about > Harry Potter's first encounter with magical/invisible train platforms. > Disclaimer: I have long ago asserted that it is such spontaneous > hierarchies of thought, speech and reality that lie at the core of our > cognitive abilities, and we enter such minute and uncharted regions of > problem space that break purely statistical tools. > > AT > > > > > On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Azn A <azninformat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > :( > > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Alan Grimes <alonz...@verizon.net>wrote: > > I finally came across the reported "linux install instructions". What I > found was that they were heavily ubuntu specific and couldn't reasonably > be carried out on any non-debian based distro. =| > > The thing really seemed to hump Ubuntu and seemed to be much more > intimate with the system as a whole than any piece of software should be. > > If you honestly want to support linux, just be compatible with the > goddamned standard! > > http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/lsb.shtml > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ > > and adhere to all conventions with respect to package design and best > practices!!! =| > > GAH!!!! > > -- > IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel. > > Powers are not rights. > > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: > https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/10514698-9a8cda1e > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > > > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/14050631-7d925eb1> | > Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > > > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-deec6279> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > > > > > -- > Ben Goertzel, PhD > http://goertzel.org > > "In an insane world, the sane man must appear to be insane". -- Capt. > James T. 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