Hello

Unfortunately Gforth is no longer a package in debian pixie and also LMDE
7, I believe this is the debian tracker for the package.
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gforth

I tried downloading 0.7.3 (Latest release) and also later versions of
the traball from https://gforth.org/ and followed the instructions.

The first issue was

dave@HP-ProBook-450G3:~/Downloads/gforth-0.7.9_20230129$ sudo
./install-deps.sh
[sudo] password for dave:
/usr/bin/sudo
./install-deps.sh: 122: install_linuxmint: not found
./install-deps.sh: 119: install_gforth_linuxmint: not found
/usr/bin/sudo
/usr/bin/nproc
./install-swig.sh: 5: git: not found
./install-swig.sh: 6: cd: can't cd to swig

So I modified ./install-deps-sh and renamed “linuxmint” to “debian” in the
code as $OS “linuxmint” is not supported. I ran it again and …

Reading state information... Done
Package libpcre3-dev is not available, but is referred to by another
package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'libpcre3-dev' has no installation candidate
Reading package lists... Done

it continued but ended with …

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package gforth
E: Unable to locate package gforth-lib
E: Unable to locate package gforth-common
/usr/bin/sudo
/usr/bin/nproc
./install-swig.sh: 5: git: not found
./install-swig.sh: 6: cd: can't cd to swig
/usr/bin/sudo

I currently use LMDE 7, but as I understand it the same issue will be
present in Debian Pixie.

Can anybody advise on how to get Gforth to install ?

Kind Regards

Dave

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