Re: gforth on RISC-V Debian "trixie"?

On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 07:11:36AM +0000, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> I have a BeagleV Ahead (RISC-V 64 bit) running Debian testing ("trixie"). For some reason, gforth isn't available in the Debian repositories. Does anyone on this list know why it isn't there?

Some time ago I saw a message on a Debian mailing list about gforth
that the package is apparently unmaintained according to them and that
it is going to be removed.  Looking at
<https://packages.debian.org/sid/gforth>, I see that it is indeed not
in trixie, but it still is in sid, so you may be able to install that
version.  Or alternatively, the bookworm version.

> 'd like to use it, and I need it to build more recent versions.

You can download the tarball from

<https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/Snapshots/current/gforth.tar.xz>

and install that.  You do not need gforth for that.

Nice to see that you are still using Gforth.

- anton