Unable to install MLton
Antonio Eduardo Costa Pereira
costa@ufu.br
Mon, 11 Dec 2000 08:49:27 -0300
Dear Sir.
I think that I should start this letter by stating
that I am not very good with computers. Thus, be patient
with my questions. My profession requires that I write
computer programs from time to time. Thus, I use SML
and Clean, because these two languages are easy to learn
(at least for a person who is a linguist by profession).
By the way, the operational system that I am using is
Slackware 7.2. Why? Well, Slackware was the only operational
system that I succeed in installing, after failing with
Windows 98 (the plug and play did not recognize my network),
Red Hat (I was not able to install openwindow, that I
need to run Clean), and a few more. At least, I was able
to install Slackware. Then, I downloaded MLTon,binaries.
I typed the following line from the root:
rmp -i mlton-20000712-2.i386.rpm
Here is what I got:
python >= 1.5.1 is needed by mlton-20000712-2
ld-linux.so.2 is needed by mlton-20000712-2
libc.so.6 is needed by mlton-20000712-2
libm.so.6 is needed by mlton-20000712-2
/bin/sh is needed by mlton-20000712-2
/usr/bin/env is needed by mlton-20000712-2
libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by mlton-20000712-2
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by mlton-20000712-2
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by mlton-20000712-2
I do not know what python is, but I typed "python" ]
just the same. I got:
Python 1.5.2 (#1, Jul 17 1999, 22:10:16)
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
This means that I do have Python, right? I went on:
locate libm.so.6
locate:
/lib/libm.so.6
To make a long story short, it seems that I have
everything that MLTon claims that I do not have.
Any suggestions?
Eduardo Costa