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Getting GNU Smalltalk to work on Ubuntu 16

I thought I’d play with Smalltalk. GNU Smalltalk is free, and also has the classic Smalltalk browser application. Except out of the box, it fails on Ubuntu 16 with:

Object: CFunctionDescriptor new: 1 "<0x7f1ffaacf690>" error: Invalid C call-out g_date_get_type

So here’s the packages you need to install so that gst-browser actually starts up on Xenial:

sudo apt install gnu-smalltalk-browser gnu-smalltalk gnu-smalltalk-doc libgtk2.0-dev libcairo2-dev libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev libpng-dev libpango1.0-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev

Now I can read the nice Adele Goldberg books I bought from thriftbooks, and play along 🙂

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