rebol on the cheap

Has anyone used REBOL with Monkey Linux? ftp://ftp.spsselib.hiedu.cz/pub/linux/monkey/docs/english.htm I haven't a clue how to install Linux, but I'm going to give this one a go. Can anyone look at this site for me and tell me which REBOL binary I need for this Linux distro? Like I said, I haven't a clue. I'm looking for a way to run REBOL on a Dell Latitude 433MC with a 486/33 and 8MB RAM. I read in a post somewhere on the Web that someone had successfully installed Monkey Linux on this laptop (minus X-Windows.) Currently, I have OS/2 installed on this machine and it runs famously (there is even support for the laptop's power management functions.) Unfortunately, there is no REBOL distribution for OS/2. Thus my reasons for checking out alternatives (my 68k PowerBook died on me a long time ago - bad power supply.) If you haven't figured it out yet, I'm a cheap *ss when it comes to computers. I bought this Dell laptop for a whopping $25. -Ryan

Lib5 is what you need. You may have to soft link the libs as needed. This was just discussed in a recent posting. I may try this distribution on my 486/66 AST laptop that has only 4 meg, poor thing. I like to think I am just poorly funded, --Ryan [RChristiansen--pop--isdfa--sei-it--com] wrote:

> Has anyone used REBOL with Monkey Linux? > ftp://ftp.spsselib.hiedu.cz/pub/linux/monkey/docs/english.htm > I bought this Dell laptop for a whopping $25. > -Ryan

OK. I've checked the archive and can't find the reference to "soft-linking the libraries." Can you help me out?

Hey Ryan, no prob, but I am no expert either--I probably dont even clear amatuer level when it comes to unix style OS's. The more I think about it, you should not have to this to often since the proper soft links normally exist when you install a system the regular way. But as a just in case measure, I will run you through it. These library files work like windows dll's (from my hardly amatuer perspective anyhow). They also appear to be backward compatable to an extent. To find out which libraries a program such as REBOL requires, just use the ldd command. ldd is found in or around gcc. If ldd says you are missing a required lib, it maybe that you can soft link it to a slightly newer lib. Here is an example from posting 337301, "[REBOL] Rebol for Debian Linux Re:": # cd /lib # ln -s libncurses.so.5 libtermcap.2.so # ldconfig Here REBOL expected libtermcap.2.so, yet libmcurses.so.5 happen to be a worthy subsititute. So a soft link for libtermcap.2.so was created pointing to libmcurses.so.5. --Ryan [RChristiansen--pop--isdfa--sei-it--com] wrote:

> OK. I've checked the archive and can't find the reference to "soft-linking the > libraries." Can you help me out? > > > Lib5 is what you need. You may have to soft link the libs as needed. > > This was just discussed in a recent posting.