pharo-snap

This builds a snapcraft package of the Pharo 6.0 Smalltalk threaded VM using the latest stable V6.0 build.

SQLite3 libraries are included.

These notes assume that you are already familiar with Pharo. If not, please visit the website at http://pharo.org/

Installing Pharo

Install Pharo in seconds on Ubuntu and other snap supported Linux distributions with:

sudo snap install pharo --classic --beta

Installing a snap is very quick. They are isolated with all of their dependencies. Snaps also auto update when a new version is released.

Compatibility

Pharo image 60442 or later is required for Cairo support.

Running the VM

The snap package provides the following commands:

• pharo - Run the image in headless mode
• pharo.ui - Run the image (with UI)
• pharo.cleanimage - Copy the clean Pharo 64 bit image and changes file to the working directory, i.e. the version current when this package was built.
• pharo.cleanimage32 - Copy the clean Pharo 32 bit image and changes file to the working directory, i.e. the version current when this package was built.
• pharo.getimage - copies the latest 64 bit 6.0 VM from http://get.pharo.org
• pharo.getimage32 - copies the latest 32 bit 6.0 VM from http://get.pharo.org
• pharo.sqlite3 - Run the sqlite3 command line utility
• pharo.config - configures system thread priority, see below.

This Pharo VM uses a threaded heartbeat that requires elevated priority. Permission is granted by creating /etc/security/limits.d/pharo.conf with the appropriate contents. Running pharo.config will create or overwrite the configuration file. This command must be run as root:

sudo pharo.config

This command only needs to be run once, and you must log out and back in for the changes to take effect.

A simple sequence to get started and check your image version:

# Create an empty directory to start in
cd ~
mkdir pharo6
cd pharo6
# Take a copy of a clean image
# You'll have two files after this: Pharo.image and Pharo.changes
pharo.cleanimage
# Start pharo
pharo.ui Pharo.image
#
# You can see the image version by clicking anywhere on the background
# and selecting System -> About...
#

Building the package

These instructions are for Ubuntu 16.04 and should work on later versions.

Ensure that snapcraft is installed and i386 is enabled:

sudo apt install snapcraft build-essential git
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update

More detailed instructions are available from: https://snapcraft.io/create/

Clone this repository and cd to the root directory (snapcraft.yaml is in this directory).

Build the package:

snapcraft clean && snapcraft

The output will be a file named pharo_(version)_amd64.snap.

Install the package

The package is installed with:

sudo snap install --dangerous --classic pharo_(version)_amd64.snap

Note:

• --dangerous is required since the package isn't signed.
• --classic is required to allow Pharo to access any other program on your machine, i.e. when calling a subprocess.