[slime-devel] Question on Downloading and installing SLIME to EMACS
Hello, I am trying to download and install the latest version of SLIME into emacs. The operating system I am running is Ubuntu Linux. To configure the CVSROOT, would I type this command (export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@common-lisp.net:/project/slime/cvsroot) in the bash terminal? Would I log in the same way with the password "anonymous"? My second question deals with the installation process. As I've said before I am running Ubuntu Linux and I was wondering how I would find the path to my lisp system and the path to my slime directory. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Ichben E.
On Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 06:21:17AM -0800, Brian Jones wrote:
Hello, I am trying to download and install the latest version of SLIME into emacs. The operating system I am running is Ubuntu Linux. To configure the CVSROOT, would I type this command (export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@common-lisp.net:/project/slime/cvsroot) in the bash terminal? Would I log in the same way with the password "anonymous"?
My second question deals with the installation process. As I've said before I am running Ubuntu Linux and I was wondering how I would find the path to my lisp system and the path to my slime directory. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Yes to the first. You can basically cut and paste the strings on the web page into an xterm and it will run (after you log in). For the second, at a Bash prompt, type "which lisp" or clisp or whatever the executable is called. Slime will be wherever you were when you grabbed it from CVS. CVS will create a directory called "slime" in your current directory. If that's not where you wanted it, move it - it doesn't care. -Jeff
Hello! On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:21:17 +0100, Brian Jones wrote:
Hello, I am trying to download and install the latest version of SLIME into emacs. The operating system I am running is Ubuntu Linux.
As you're using Ubuntu, you could grab the latest SLIME/Emacs packages, using your favorite package manager. As I never used Ubuntu, I searched on Google and found that SLIME seems to be present only on edgy and feisty [1]. Moreover, the version is dated back to 20060925, so it's actually not the real latest upstream version [2].
My second question deals with the installation process. As I've said before I am running Ubuntu Linux and I was wondering how I would find the path to my lisp system and the path to my slime directory. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
In case of packaged SLIME/Emacs, you just need to set the Emacs `inferior-lisp-program' variable to your preferred Common Lisp implementation (in case you have more than one installed, otherwise the unique one is automatically chosen). Then starting SLIME on Emacs with M-x slime will do the rest. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca Footnotes: [1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=slime&searchon=names&subword=1&version=all&release=all [2] this is mainly because Debian is near a release and thus packages aren't updated as frequent as during a normal development cycle (except to solve release critical bugs)
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