Re: [slime-devel] Newbie problem: Slime won't start.. . .

Lawrence Bottorff galaxybeingplan9@gmail.com writes:

Thanks, that worked. However, I already had done the standard uninstall/remove for both through "Ubuntu Software Center". Maybe have a note of warning on your webpage about Ubuntu's woes. . . .

Thanks again.

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Stas Boukarev stassats@gmail.com wrote:

Lawrence Bottorff <galaxybeingplan9@gmail.com> writes:

> I've got this error when I M-x slime for the first time:
>
>  LOAD: A file with name
>       /usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp does
not exist
>
> I'm on Ubuntu 11.10 and have clisp installed through/as an
Ubuntu package;
> otherwise, I'm using your latest (slime-2012-02-09). Any ideas
what I've
> done wrong?

Purge previous installations of slime, dpkg --purge slime cl-swank
--
With best regards, Stas.

I think that the easier way to install SLIME, and everything related to CL that is not a lisp implementation, is quicklisp.

(ql:quickload :quicklisp-slime-helper) and you're done.

See http://www.mohiji.org/2011/01/modern-common-lisp-on-linux/ for a quick HOWTO.