Hi Alexander, just posted my success story :-)
I just downloaded the latest PicoLisp deb package and tried to install with dpkg. It failed, because it missed libssl1.1. After quite a bit of searching I thought I had to upgrade Linux (apt-get upgrade). So, I did that, because it wouldn't hurt anyway. Retried install of PicoLisp. Same error. Tried to install libssl1.1 using apt-get install, which didn't seem possible. So, I downloaded it's deb package and installed it with dpkg. After that picolisp installed just fine. So far, so good! I notice that the package name is picolisp17.12+20180218-1, which seems to be version 17.12 (looking at that name), but "pil -version" says 18.2.17. How about that? Now I'll try if everything works :-) Thx. for all the help (also the others in the community). I'll chime in on IRC as well. Alex: keep up the good work! PicoLisp is great! Now I'll have to learn it, but luckily I know quite a lot about Scheme, Racket, Lisp and Clojure already. Having an integrated db and a gui is impressive, a fresh breeze compared to a lot of bloatware. Thx. again, /Arie 2018-04-17 16:56 GMT+02:00 Alexander Burger <a...@software-lab.de>: > Hi Arie, > > > So, I tried it another way by just installing the Debian package > PicoLisp: > > sudo apt-get install picolisp > > and indeed, now starting pil just works. However, it is an older version > ( > > *15.11.0*). > > Yes, it is Debian "stable". > > > > On this page: > > https://packages.debian.org/sid/lisp/picolisp > > I see that there is a version: > > *17.12+20180218-1* > > available. > > > > Q: *Why isn't that latest package installed?* > > Yeah, good question. Debian packages are usually quite outdated. > > If you install the "testing" version of Debian, you get > > $ apt-cache policy picolisp > picolisp: > Installed: 17.12+20180218-1 > Candidate: 17.12+20180218-1 > Version table: > *** 17.12+20180218-1 500 > 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages > 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 Packages > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > > ♪♫ Alex > > -- > UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe >
