William,
I don't know much about Debian systems, so I've copied [email protected] back onto this reply to let everyone else know that it looks like you are up and running now. Unless, of course, you still have questions. 😉 DaR From: Wilnav Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2014 11:34 AM To: Dennis Ruffer HiDaR Sorry for the delay replying. I work at hospital and have a very active family so my time is scattered. Here is how I install gforth on Trisquel HP G60 AMD 64. My Linux manual is Linux in a Nutshell 6th Edition. First copy sources.list to [your account]/Documents and edit. then from this link http://packages.trisquel.info/taranis/amd64/ksh/download after reading edit sources.list by entering the following statement deb http://ES.archive.trisquel.info/trisquel taranis main changing ES to the country your gforth package is located. Thus deb http://US.archive.trisquel.info/trisquel taranis main Sources.list should look something like this... #deb cdrom:[Trisquel 6.0.1 _toutatis_ - Release amd64 (20140319)]/ toutatis main # Trisquel repositories for supported software and updates deb http://us.archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/ toutatis main . . . deb http://us.archive.trisquel.info/trisquel taranis main # deb http://us.archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/ toutatis-backports main # deb-src http://us.archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/ toutatis-backports main Store sources.list. Open terminal go to etc/apt dir to see if sources.list is there. sudo rm sources.list asks for your password (enter pw) dir sources.list should be gonee go to home/yourname/Documents dir to see sources.list enter the command cp sources.list /etc/apt now check apt to see if sources.list is there Clisk on the Trisquel symbol at bottom left of desktop choose System Settings page to the bottom and select Synaptic Package Manager hit Reload. This may take a bit of time. Below Reload make sure All is highlighted In the Quick Filter box type gforth and click Search select all gforth items and follow prompts From Synaptic Package Manager install selected gforth packages. gforth is ready to go. Open Termina and type gforth and you are on your way. Again thanks for your very prompt reply. Sorry for my slow response. Kind regards, William Stahl On 08/13/2014 07:36 AM, [email protected] wrote: I've found Ubuntu to be real easy to setup and use. Then gforth is as easy as “sudo apt-get install gforth” DaR From: wilnav Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 6:49 AM To: [email protected] Hi all, First I am very green. I have some idea about forth as I have programmed the HP 50g which has a forth like operating system and RPL programming environment. I decided to go direct to ANS forth via gforth. Especially sense it is free software as I support the movement. I have read Brend's suggestion to install openSUSE and have done so. Had no problem compiling gforth [gforth-0.7.1.tar.gz.] However openSUSE is not shown as a free operating system on https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html I have installed Trisequel but am not sure how to create a development environment to allow me to install gforth-0.7.1.tar.gz ( I prefer the OpenSUSE GNOME ) So I am thinking of installing gnewsense. I would like to support FSF and GNU as much as possible. So within the gforth community is there a preference to one or other operating system? Kind regards, William Stahl PS I have donated to gforth development and FSF and will continue to do so I really appreciate all you do.
