No I see nowhere a Pharo Launcher icon. In short I am completely unable to start Pharo Launcher,
this is the output in the terminal "exloupis@exloupis-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M:~$ sudo apt-get install pharo-launcher:i386 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: pharo-launcher:i386 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 115 not upgraded. Need to get 3354 B of archives. After this operation, 27,6 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/pharo/stable/ubuntu/ raring/main pharo-launcher i386 2013.12.16-1~ppa1~raring1 [3354 B] Fetched 3354 B in 0s (11,6 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package pharo-launcher. (Reading database ... 376013 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking pharo-launcher (from .../pharo-launcher_2013.12.16-1~ppa1~raring1_i386.deb) ... Setting up pharo-launcher (2013.12.16-1~ppa1~raring1) ... " If this was Windows or MacOS I would agree that you could get away without mentioning how to launch the app, though the majority of good documentation usually mentions that. But this is Linux, a diffirent beast, it has 2 ways of working its GUI that differs from linux distro to linux distro, in my case Unity and terminal usage. Till now I knew that pharo installed through UBUNTU was to be used from terminal, now you telling me that there is an icon that I should click. Its not hard to be confused. Maybe the install failed, but if it did why it did not report any error ? I also asked for the file list to detect the error and maybe launch the app manually. In any case I dont see any new icons created in the side bar (dock) and search of "pharo" returns empty. I am on UBUNTU 13.04 64 bit , I have installed pharo before via the PPA method. I welcome any help :) On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Sergi Reyner <[email protected]> wrote: > 2014-04-08 10:05 GMT+01:00 kilon alios <[email protected]>: > > I am following the documentation here >> >> http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~Pharo/PharoLauncher >> >> and it sends me also there >> >> http://www.pharo-project.org/pharo-download/ubuntu >> >> >> then it says >> >> "Just launch the Pharo launcher image using the platform-specific VM." >> >> but there is no information how to do that. >> > > When I go to http://www.pharo-project.org/pharo-download/ubuntu I get the > following: > > Pharo on Ubuntu >> Installation >> If you are an Ubuntu user, you can very easily install the Pharo. You >> have to add the Pharo PPA (ppa:pharo/stable) and install the Pharo Launcher >> by issuing these commands: >> $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pharo/stable >> $ sudo apt-get update >> $ sudo apt-get install pharo-launcher:i386 >> If you don't have the add-apt-repository command, install the >> 'software-properties-common' package and try again. >> If you are on a server (no GUI), you can get a Pharo Virtual Machine by >> installing pharo-vm-core. >> Details >> The following 3 packages are provided: >> - pharo-launcher: the main entry point for nearly everyone. >> - pharo-vm-desktop: if you want to handle your images manually. >> - pharo-vm-core: if you are on a server with no GUI. > > > Presumably you get a Pharolauncher menu entry after that. To me it´s not > necessary to be more specific, if one can´t figure out how to launch a > program through the menus there are probably some concepts to learn before > getting into programming. But that´s just my opinion. > > >> There is also no information about where Pharo Launcher installs and what >> files it installs. Not good :( >> > > There is no information about that for the other platforms either. To me > it doesn´t seem important, and since we´re dealing with packages, the > package manager should be able to tell you what files are installed where. > Having that written in documentation makes it yet another piece of > documentation that needs to be maintained. > > Cheers, > Sergi >
