installing pier on ubuntu was easy (so far ;-) ) - smallwiki

28 Oct 2006

Howdy

I just started looking at squeak and all the great toys it can
include. I asked about squeak wiki's on the beginners list and Keith
suggested I look at the preloaded image on www.squeak.org and join
this list.

I did Thanks! :-)

I am interested in squeak for education. We are setting up some
classes for kids (of all ages ;-) ) to learn programming. I had
included an intro to squeak in a class a few years ago and am glad I
can come back to look more.

I am looking into a wiki as one way the kids can collaborate. I ran
swiki and was pleased with the little I did with it. I am interested
in the differences between pier and swiki. I plan on working with pier
for at least the next little bit.

My adventures with pier so far are:

I installed on XP and poked a bit to see it up and running.

I then installed squeak on a ubuntu 6.06 linux box from
www.squeak.org. I realized I had not looked to see if squeak was
available from the ubuntu repositories and checked and :-) there it
was. I uninstalled the first copy and then installed from the
repositories.

I then ran with the preloaded pier image and was up in way less that 5
minutes (if you don't count the test on XP and the first load of
squeak) !!!

I added a page to the wiki and can see and edit from various computers
on our network.

I will play more if I have more time this weekend but it is looking good!

Gary