OpenEuphoria

Re: Upgrading from XP to Linux

• Posted by irv mullins <irvm at ellijay.com> Jun 14, 2004
• 458 views

Al Getz wrote:
....
> Well, take care and thanks much for the info and ideas from
> all of you.  I'll still have a few more questions of course,
> but mainly with regard to using Euphoria on Linux, which is
> next on my list.  Right now i have no idea how to get Euphoria
> going on linux  but i bet it wont be hard.  If someone
> wants to post a list of most important file extensions and
> brief explanation that would get me started.

Download the Linux version from rapideuphori.com - note: the directions 
on the download page say to "right click and save target as...", but 
that doesn't work for me. Instead, just left click, and in the dialog 
which pops up, choose "save to disk" (in your home directory or onto 
the desktop, your choice)

Once that's finished, navigate to your home directory (or the desktop) 
and look for a file named euphori24.tar. You can left click on that 
and browse thru it (and the same with zipped archives) without having 
to download a program. In Windows, you would have to get WinZip or something)

If you left click, you should have an option to open the file with Ark.
Do that, then choose "action/extract" from the  menu, and select your 
home directory as the destination. That will look something like: 
file:/home/al/ (or whatever your user name is).

Ark will put everything in the right places. 
Then follow Rob's instructions to edit your .bash_profile file.
That file works like autoexec.bat.

Note that .bash_profile is a hidden file, you won't see it if you do 
a dir or ls. Just choose an editor from the menu (kwrite, for example) 
and open .bash_profile. Either type .bash_profile in the "location" box, 
or choose "configuration/show hidden files" from the menu, and browse 
for it.

You'll see lines like:

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
export PATH 

Just add a couple more before the "export PATH" line:

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/euphoria/bin
export EUDIR

Then log out, and back in. It is not necessary to reboot.
That will make the changes in your .bash_profile take effect.
You should then be ready to go.

Regards,
Irv