<div dir="auto"><div><div dir="auto">Hellwig,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div>I'm using Oberon V4 in Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS in an Oracle VM under Windows 10 Home 64 bits.</div><div dir="auto">I've installed according to a recent email from Robert Lichtenberger:</div><div dir="auto"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">I assume you are following the installation instructions at:</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://olymp.idle.at/tanis/INSTALL" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">http://olymp.idle.at/tanis/INSTALL</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">.</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">I admit I no longer remember writing them but I think you should be able</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">to start oberon without any font installation. The section you quoted is</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">clearly wrong.</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">On my machine (which has Fedora-31) I am still able to run oberon by:</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">* Downloading </span><a href="http://olymp.idle.at/tanis/oberon-1.7.02.tar.gz" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">http://olymp.idle.at/tanis/oberon-1.7.02.tar.gz</a><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">* cd /usr/local</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">* tar zxvf ~rli/Downloads/oberon-1.7.02.t</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">ar.gz</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">* mv oberon-1.7.02/ oberon</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">* mkdir $HOME/oberon</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">* cd $HOME/oberon</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">* /usr/local/oberon/sob</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Hope that helps,</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Robert Lichtenberger</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br>It gives me some error messages about the fonts, but it is working despite that. I've used some instructions with sudo:</div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div style="color:purple">Downloading <a href="http://olymp.idle.at/tanis/oberon-1.7.02.tar.gz" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244)">http://olymp.idle.at/tanis/oberon-1.7.02.tar.gz</a><br>* cd /usr/local<br></div>* tar zxvf ~/Downloads/oberon-1.7.02.tar.gz<br>* sudo mv oberon-1.7.02/ oberon<br>* sudo mkdir $HOME/oberon<br>* cd $HOME/oberon<br>* sudo /usr/local/oberon/sob</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">A last answer by Robert about the errors:</div></div><div dir="auto"><div style="color:purple;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px" dir="auto"><br><blockquote style="margin-left:0.8ex!important;margin-right:0px!important;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204)!important;padding-left:1ex!important"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br><div>but I get errors in terminal console:<br></div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>~/oberon$ sudo /usr/local/oberon/sob<br>find: warning: you have specified the -maxdepth option after a non-option argument -type,<br></div><div>but options are not positional (-maxdepth affects tests specified before it as well as those specified after it). <br></div><div>Please specify options before other arguments.<br><br>find: warning: you have specified the -mindepth option after a non-option argument -type,<br></div><div>but options are not positional (-mindepth affects tests specified before it as well as those specified after it). <br></div><div>Please specify options before other arguments.<br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">You can safely ignore these errors.</span><div style="color:purple;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px" dir="auto"><br><blockquote style="margin-left:0.8ex!important;margin-right:0px!important;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204)!important;padding-left:1ex!important"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br>rm: cannot remove 'System': No such file or directory<br>rm: cannot remove 'Text': No such file or directory<br>rm: cannot remove 'xfonts': No such file or directory<br>rm: cannot remove 'Source': No such file or directory<br>rm: cannot remove 'Packages': No such file or directory<br>rm: cannot remove 'root': No such file or directory<br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><p style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">These won't happen again, if you start from the same directory again.</p><p style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">The script recreates the symbolic links each time you invoke it.<br></p><div style="color:purple;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px" dir="auto"><blockquote style="margin-left:0.8ex!important;margin-right:0px!important;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204)!important;padding-left:1ex!important"><div dir="ltr">---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><div class="elided-text"><div>Is it ok anyway?</div></div></div></blockquote></div><p style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Yes it is.</p></div><div dir="auto"><div style="font-size:13.696px;margin:0px 16px" dir="auto"><div><div style="margin:16px 0px"><div><div><div style="color:purple"><blockquote style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;margin-left:0.8ex!important;margin-right:0px!important;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204)!important;padding-left:1ex!important"><div dir="ltr"><div class="elided-text"><div>Thank you again for your invaluable assistance.</div></div></div></blockquote></div><p>You're welcome.</p><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><p><br></p><p>Robert Lichtenberger</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="auto">Best regards,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Prof Pablo Cayuela</div><div dir="auto">Argentina</div><div dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">El mié., 13 ene. 2021 7:23, Hellwig Geisse <<a href="mailto:hellwig.geisse@mni.thm.de">hellwig.geisse@mni.thm.de</a>> escribió:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Pablo,<br>
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On Mo, 2021-01-11 at 00:39 -0300, Pablo Cayuela wrote:<br>
> In Ubuntu I do these steps to launch Oberon V4 for Linux:<br>
> <br>
> $ cd $HOME/oberon<br>
> $ /usr/local/oberon/sob <br>
> <br>
<br>
may I ask if that is a recent version of Ubuntu?<br>
I got V4 running only under an old 32-bit version<br>
(Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS), which I started in qemu.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Hellwig<br>
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