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 🙂