Re: Installing scsh on Ubuntu 11.10

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 4:27 AM, taltman <[email protected]> wrote:
> To whom it may concern,
>
> I am very eager to start shell scripting using scsh, but I am having a
> very hard time getting any version of it to work. I'm running Ubuntu
> 11.10 x86_64 via VirtualBox on a Macbook Air.
>
> I tried the stock scsh packages for Ubuntu 11.10 after installing the
> i386 libraries, but that had issues with broken packages.
>
> I tried following the instructions available as part of the scsh
> Google Code project for porting it to 64-bit Scheme48, but the paths
> to Roderic's pages at neu.edu are coming up with 404 errors.
>
> I tried the following instructions from the newsgroup, but it didn't
> seem to install a scsh executable anywhere in my path:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.scheme.scsh/7703
>
> I am really at my wit's end. I think that scsh is a brilliant approach
> to shell scripting, but it seems that there's no easy way to run it.
> Any help with getting me to scsh scripting bliss would be greatly
> appreciated. Save me from needing to reinvent scsh using CLISP. :-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> ~Tomer Altman
>

Hi Tomer,

I am also on a 64-bit Mac. I have been able to install scsh using Homebrew:

http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/

Some kind soul has been maintaining a Homebrew recipe. Once Homebrew
is installed, it's as simple as:

$ brew install scsh

Hope that helps,
Rich

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