Re: Chicken on Debian

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hi Duke,

On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 13:09:37 -0700 Duke Normandin <dukeofpurl@gmx.com> wrote:

> Debian shows only:
>
> dnormandin@ASUSLAP:~$ apt search chicken
> Sorting... Done
> Full Text Search... Done
> chicken-bin/oldstable 4.11.0-1 amd64
>  Practical and portable Scheme system - compiler
>
> dnormandin@ASUSLAP:~$ sudo apt install chicken-bin=5.2.0
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Version '5.2.0' for 'chicken-bin' was not found

If you want to compile CHICKEN from sources, it's a piece of cake on
Linux, and doesn't depend on much more than what you'd need to install
eggs. You'll need a C toolchain and GNU make.

In case that's a viable alternative for you, below is a simple recipe
that will install CHICKEN in $HOME/local/chicken-5.2.0 (you can change
that, of course).

  $ wget http://code.call-cc.org/releases/5.2.0/chicken-5.2.0.tar.gz
  $ tar xzvf chicken-5.2.0.tar.gz
  $ cd chicken-5.2.0
  $ make PLATFORM=linux PREFIX=$HOME/local/chicken-5.2.0 install

You can add $HOME/local/chicken-5.2.0/bin to $PATH to execute the
CHICKEN tools without providing the path to them.

All the best.
Mario
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