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[Amos Blanton <amos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Hi John,

Have you tried forcing the installation of the 32 bit package first? A 
lot of people have reported good luck with that approach on Ubuntu -- I 
wonder if it would work with Fedora as well.

A true 64 bit version would require a 64 bit Squeak VM, which if I 
remember correctly is a long way off. And Scratch is not currently 
compatible with later versions of the Squeak VM, and it seems unlikely 
we'll make the shift since the next version of Scratch will most likely 
be written in Flash (and should work on most platforms).

Amos
Scratch Team
http://scratch.mit.edu/


On 06/29/2010 11:02 PM, John Morris wrote:
> Just tried building scratch on Fedora 12 x86_64.  One edit to the spec
> file was needed to get a build.
>
> Change line 180 from:
> %setup -q
>
> to:
> %setup -q -n scratch
>
> After that it builds a binary package. But it won't run.
> scratch_squeak_vm ends up in /usr/lib64/scratch/App instead of /usr/bin.
> A symlink fixed that.  Then it wouldn't run because the scratch shell
> script is looking in /usr/lib/scratch instead of /usr/lib64/scratch.
> Easy enough to fix.  And if everything was fine after that I'd be
> posting a .patch file to deal with those and declaring it ready to go.
>
> After those easy fixes it comes up and I could play around with it but
> it ain't right.  Anything involving File open/save blows up.  Can't see
> a way to cut/paste the error message but can send a screencap if it
> would help.  When I attempted to use the camera all I got was black.
> Help Page... and Help Screens... do nothing.