Dave, I compiled gforth very recently on the latest version of Linux Mint. What I did was:
0. get 'git'. Looks like you don't have it installed. 1. get gforth 0.7.9 (the most recent version) 2. go into the gforth folder and execute 'install-swig.sh'. This will install a modified swig for gforth. 3. run 'configure', 'make', 'sudo make install' or 'make install' depending on where are you installing gforth. Essentially I followed instructions in INSTALL.md, except that swig-forth has to be installed before running 'configure'. Tom On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM dave selby <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
