Installing Squeak

Note: The desciption below will get you the system-developer's version of Squeak. On the laptop there is a special Squeak distribution derived from squeakland.org. See Etoys for information on the actual OLPC version. --Bert

Download files

On the Squeak download page, click the appropriate link to download the virtual machine and image for your computer and operating system.

Untar the file into a directory.

Go into the directory and run

sh ./INSTALL

to install the virtual machine.

Choose or create a directory to run squeak in, and run

inisqueak

there to create your personal image file.

(I haven't found the inisqueak script, so I hope someone will edit this.)

OR copy the image file, the changes file and the sources file to your working directory, and change their names to squeak.image, squeak.change, and squeak.sources. (I don't yet know if this last is necessary. Anybody?)

Run

squeak

and you get an amazingly rich but underdocumented graphical programming environement. If OLPC wants a proper manual for all of this, I'm an experienced Tech Writer with lots of API and other programming documentation experience who learned Smalltalk from the books when they first came out, and I'm available.--Mokurai 05:36, 12 October 2006 (EDT)