If you want to try this way, I created a bash script that works on Ubuntu 16.04. You'd have to get a VM or Ubuntu box up, but it should work from a fresh install. Just another option... https://github.com/ryanhornbeck/opencog_bash
On Sunday, January 1, 2017 at 8:15:12 AM UTC-8, Alex wrote: > > Hi! > > I am trying to build opencog. I am aware of > http://wiki.opencog.org/w/Octool and instructions > http://wiki.opencog.org/w/Building_OpenCog but I am coming from Windows > Java & Delphi development and therefore I have problems with build process > on Ubuntu. > > Regarding Octool - when I issued '*sudo ocpkg - rsdpcalv*' then I > received error message 'command not found'. Then I issued '*bash -x ocpkg > - rsdpcalv*' and somehting happend - something was downloaded and there > were no red error messages except for one '*E: Unable to locate package > libjson-spirit-dev*'. I did this for all 3 octool commands -rsdpcalv, > -rdcv, -rdv but don't know I arrived at any meaningful reasult. It is said > in documentation that octool just prepares the environment and dependencies > but apparently other command should be used for building the cogserver > itself. > > So - I went to http://wiki.opencog.org/w/Building_OpenCo and there I read > that maybe '*bash -x ocpkg -b*' is the right command to complete the > build process? There the cmake is mentioned but I don't manage to find make > file - in which directory it is? > > I completed '*bash -x ocpkg -b*', something happened but when I tried to > run opencog command then the answer was that opencog was not found. > > How can I check the result of build process - in which directories the > final executables are going? How to run octool wihout bash prefix - in > normal mode? > > The project is very, very interesting, but the start is very hard. I > OpenCog had be available as Windows or Java programs then every novice > could be able to run server, to create AtomSpaces, to start experiments, to > use without programming knowledge. But OK, I can continues in this mode as > well, but just some advice would be very helpful. > > Alex > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "opencog" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/opencog. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/ccc050c3-3564-4e1b-9ff5-51c15aa02150%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
