Installing Io language on Ubuntu

    23 Oct 2011
    Sandro Mancuso, Co-founder and Group CEO

    Sandro Mancuso, Co-founder and Group CEO

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    Since I'm new to Ubuntu and I had a hard time installing Io language, I've decided to record my steps. Hopefully I'll remember all of them and other people won't struggle as much as I did. I'm running Ubuntu 11.10.

    The main problem I had was that I did not have all the dependencies needed to install Io and the installation was failing. The dependencies are yajl and libevent

    If you've got then installed, you can skip the next steps.

    NOTE: You will need to have cmake and make. You can install them running the following commands from the terminal:

     

    sudo apt-get install cmake sudo apt-get install make

     

    Installing yajl

    Download yajl from here:  https://github.com/lloyd/yajl/downloads

    1. In my case it was: lloyd-yajl-2.0.1-0-gf4b2b1a.zip

    Extract it into a folder.

    Open the terminal and go to the folder you extracted yajl

    Run the following commands

     

    1. mkdir build 2. cd build 3. cmake .. 4. sudo make install

     

    For more information, please check:

    https://github.com/lloyd/yajl

    https://github.com/lloyd/yajl/blob/master/BUILDING

    Installing libevent

    Download libevent from here: http://libevent.org/

    1. In my case it was: libevent-2.0.15-stable.tar.gz

    Extract it into a folder

    Open the terminal and go to the folder you extracted libevent

    Run the following commands

     

    1. ./configure 2. make 3. sudo make install

     

    For more information please check: http://libevent.org/ Also check the README file inside the .tar.gz for your version

    Installing Io language

    You can go to the Io language website and download the language or click here to go start downloading it. As there is no Ubuntu package for that, you will be downloading the Io's source code. This will point to Steve Dekorte's version. I ended up downloading Jeremy Tregunna's version. It should work the same. Check each one is the most up-to-date.

    Download the Io version here: https://github.com/jeremytregunna/io/zipball/master

    Extract it into a folder.

    Open the terminal and go to the folder you extracted Io

    Run the following commands:

     

    1. mkdir build 2. cd build 3. cmake .. 4. sudo make install

     

    IMPORTANT: When running cmake .., you may get a few errors. Even then, try to run sudo make install. Some libraries may fail to compile because they are OS specific.

    For mode information please check:

    http://iolanguage.com/ https://github.com/stevedekorte/io https://github.com/jeremytregunna/io

    Updating ld.so.conf

    Now we just need to update ld.so.conf so Io can be accessed from anywhere in your computer.

    1. From the terminal, type the following command: sudo gedit /etc/ld.so.conf
    2. Add the following line to the file: include /usr/local/lib
    3. Save and close the file
    4. From the terminal run the following command: sudo ldconfig

    Running Io

    That's it. Hopefully now you will be able to open a terminal window and type: io You should see the Io runtime environment: Io> _

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