Ubuntu 13.04上的Pharo：没有找到模块“vm-display-X11”的错误

Question

I have downloaded Pharo 2.0 installer for Linux. On Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit, I have ia32-libs and ia32-libs-multiarch installed already. However, when I launch Pharo, I get an error: could not find module vm-display-X11 . After that, it aborts.

The said file is available in the bin directory, as usual. I had never run into this error earlier. I recently re-installed Ubuntu, after which I am having this error. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Answer 1

The easiest way to install Pharo on Ubuntu is to use the dedicated PPA:

See the "Ubuntu ppa" section at http://pharo.org/download

Answer 2

vm-display-X11 probably has some unmet dependencies, use ldd to find them

ldd pharo-vm/vm-display-X11

This should output something similar to

linux-gate.so.1 (0xf776e000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7706000)
libGL.so.1 => not found
libX11.so.6 => not found
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xf7539000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf776f000)

In ubuntu use dpkg -S to find the packages that provide those dependencies

dpkg -S libGL.so.1 libX11.so.6

And finally install them with your package manager

Answer 3

The following two steps solved the problem.

1. sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/mesa/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1

2. sudo ldconfig

Not pretty, but it worked!

Answer 4

From pharo.org: http://pharo.org/gnu-linux-installation#debian8

The installation in more recent Ubuntu & Debian distributions requires some operations.

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install libx11-6:i386 
sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 
sudo apt-get install libfontconfig1:i386 
sudo apt-get install libssl1.0.0:i386

It should works