Got it working. Turns out, on a Debian Stable box, I also needed to do this:
root@linux> apt-get install parrot/testing parrot-minimal/testing because the Stable versions were already installed, but (apparently) weren't new enough. Maybe change/update the Depends: ? In any event, I can now do: root@linux> perl6 > say "Hello, world!" Hello, world! Thanks/best, -- Steve Lane On Dec 25 12:51, Steve Lane wrote: > Package: rakudo > Version: 0.1~2011.07-1 > Severity: normal > > > It is my understanding from the documentation that simply typing > 'perl6' on the command line should put me into interactive mode (based > on http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo/). > > Instead I get the error message: > > PARROT VM: Could not load bytecode > Could not load oplib `io_ops' > > So... it looks like something is missing. This was my install (note > that this machine is running stable, not testing, so perhaps that is > part of the problem..?): > > root@linux> apt-get install rakudo parrot-devel/testing > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Selected version '3.6.0-1' (Debian:testing [amd64]) for 'parrot-devel' > The following extra packages will be installed: > libparrot-dev libparrot2.0.0 libparrot3.6.0 parrot parrot-devel > parrot-minimal > Suggested packages: > parrot-doc > The following NEW packages will be installed: > libparrot-dev libparrot2.0.0 libparrot3.6.0 parrot parrot-devel > parrot-minimal rakudo > > all of which went perfectly smoothly. > > Thanks/best > > -- > Steve Lane > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 6.0.3 > APT prefers stable > APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > Versions of packages rakudo depends on: > ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared > lib > ii libparrot3.6.0 3.6.0-1 Parrot shared library > ii libreadline6 6.1-3 GNU readline and history > libraries > ii parrot-devel 3.6.0-1 Parrot development tools > > rakudo recommends no packages. > > rakudo suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information -- Steve Lane System Administrator, Scientific Computing Joint BioEnergy Institute Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
