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jayunit100
jayunit100

Reputation: 17650

Does apt-get work to install Clojure on Linux (ubuntu 10)?

I noticed that there is a package repo for Clojure, so I tried

sudo apt-get install clojure

However, the install failed, it looks like there is a java dependency missing.

I have java installed correctly on my machine: javac -version results 1.6.0_26.

In any case, I find leiningan is always an easy way to go, but thought I would try apt-get to see if it was working. Any thoughts on this error message?

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 clojure : Depends: libasm3-java but it is not going to be installed

Upvotes: 13

Views: 14306

Answers (4)

Alexey
Alexey

Reputation: 9447

Just a no-brainer script to install leiningen:

cd `mktemp -d`
wget https://raw.github.com/technomancy/leiningen/stable/bin/lein
chmod +x lein 
sudo mv lein /usr/local/bin/
lein help
cd -

Upvotes: 7

Yaroslav Fedoruk
Yaroslav Fedoruk

Reputation: 144

See recommendations from official site http://clojure.org/downloads . "Get Clojure via Leiningen" section.

Upvotes: 1

Gary Poster
Gary Poster

Reputation: 61

apt-get install leiningen works, and easily installs Clojure dependencies (including ones you probably don't need, but it is easy). Debian sid has 1.7.1, which is the most recent stable version; Ubuntu 12.04 has this available in universe. Then you can follow the lein instructions.

Leiningen 2.0 is coming soon; maybe that will become available in a PPA when it is finalized.

Upvotes: 6

jayunit100
jayunit100

Reputation: 17650

To summarize the comments:

Yes, apt-get works –

... BUT it it is not the preferred way to install Clojure.

So ... whats the "right" way to install Clojure ?

Leiningen remains the up-to-date, conventional way to rapidly get a Clojure installation up and running.

The steps are as follows :

  1. copying this shell script: https://raw.github.com/technomancy/leiningen/stable/bin/lein
  2. moving it to /usr/local/bin
  3. calling sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/lein.

Make sure you have Java installed first, of course.

These steps will install Clojure on any platform with the latest version.

Upvotes: 24

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