OpenEuphoria

Re: Getting started on Linux - How to?

• Posted by Alexander Toresson <alexander.toresson at gmail.com> Jun 13, 2005
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Dave Probert wrote:
> 
> I've just got my second machine up and runnig with Debian linux - and I'm
> still a newbie
> as far as KDE, etc goes!!

Good choice there. I'm on debian too.

> I've untar'd the Euphoria stuff into a folder in my Home directory (with all
> subfolders,
> etc), I have my PATH and EUDIR showing correctly from a shell window (after
> rebooting
> even) and I go into the Tutorials folder for Euphoria.
> I type 'exu hello.e' (without quotes) and get the message "Can't open xterm"!!
> Even though I'm in an XTerm window (as the Root user).

Do export TERM=ansi (and put that wherever you put the export EUDIR=...).
That should fix it.

> Can anyone give me, and as info for others, a step by step guide about how to
> set up
> and test Euphoria under Linux?
>   Basic install
>   How to do file associations under KDE (woudl be nice!)
>     How to make a 'double-click' on a .exu file run correctly (as opposed to
>     loading
> into an editor!)

Unfortunately, I dunno completetly about kde... you'll have to check the docs on
how to set environment variables -- those that are shown in an xterm and are used
when just running a program outside of an xterm are not the same.

>   How to Bind and make 'double-clickable' executables

Should not be much different from how to do it in windows...

> Something detailed would be a useful thing to have as a page on the
> RapidEuphoria site,
> 'cos searching the forum doesn't yield much useful results.
> 
> I guess it was just too easy to do under Windows ;) and I was expecting a
> similar approach
> under Linux.
> 
> BTW, I also have a second WinXP machine, so you can probably guess I'm going
> to be
> doing some cross-platform development as soon as I can get Eu to work :)
> 
> 
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Regards, Alexander Toresson