Re: Problems Installing OPAM

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ah yes, that's right.  The solution is basically to get the Debian packages 
upstreamed properly so that a source install is never required.  This has been 
blocked due to the 8 month (!) upstream Debian release freeze, but this ended 
last week.  I've pinged the Debian issue on Github to understand the current 
state of play.  It seems that getting a new package into Debian is quite an 
epic year-long endeavour...

https://github.com/OCamlPro/opam/issues/149

-anil


On 14 May 2013, at 18:40, Richard Mortier <Richard.Mortier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

> looked to me more like it had once been run from a local install in u-l-b and 
> then heidi had installed the .debs which put it in u-b
> 
> On 14 May 2013, at 17:17, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> 
>> This is a new one on me.  I'm not sure that OPAM can do anything to rebuild 
>> the shell cache.  But it's very very weird that invoking OPAM from the shell 
>> would work, and then a subshell fails to find the binary that launched it!
>> 
>> So, hrm, not sure what we can do to improve this...
>> 
>> -anil
>> 
>> On 14 May 2013, at 16:51, Heidi Howard <hh360@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> Fixed, using "hash -r"
>>> 
>>> On 14 May 2013 16:21, Heidi Howard <hh360@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> I'm trying to install OPAM on Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit using the package
>>>> manager, but I don't understand why its not working, any suggestions ?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> $ echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://www.recoil.org/~avsm/ wheezy main" >>
>>>> /etc/apt/sources.list
>>>> 
>>>> $ sudo apt-get install opam
>>>> Reading package lists... Done
>>>> Building dependency tree
>>>> Reading state information... Done
>>>> The following NEW packages will be installed
>>>> opam
>>>> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
>>>> Need to get 2,598 kB of archives.
>>>> After this operation, 7,478 kB of additional disk space will be used.
>>>> WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
>>>> opam
>>>> Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
>>>> Get:1 http://www.recoil.org/~avsm/ wheezy/main opam amd64 0.9.6 [2,598 kB]
>>>> Fetched 2,598 kB in 0s (9,820 kB/s)
>>>> Selecting previously unselected package opam.
>>>> (Reading database ... 313487 files and directories currently installed.)
>>>> Unpacking opam (from .../archives/opam_0.9.6_amd64.deb) ...
>>>> Processing triggers for man-db ...
>>>> Setting up opam (0.9.6) ...
>>>> 
>>>> $ opam init
>>>> bash: /usr/local/bin/opam: No such file or directory
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Regards
>>>> Heidi
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Regards
>>> Heidi
>>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
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> R.
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