[swift-users] Failure to import SwiftShims at the REPL

[Jason Dusek]

Thank you Dmitri -- following your instructions, I was finally able to
complete the example at the REPL.

On Sat, 5 Dec 2015 at 18:17 Dmitri Gribenko <gribozavr at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Jason Dusek via swift-users
> <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
> > Hi List,
> >
> > On Ubuntu 14.04, trying out Swift from the REPL fails for me when
> > Swift is unable to find the SwiftShims module. All other aspects of
> > installation -- Clang 3.6, libicu-dev -- are correct as far as I can
> > tell.
> >
> > Putting `swift` in `strace` reveals that it tries to find and open
> >
> >   /usr/local/lib/swift/linux/x86_64/SwiftShims.swiftmodule
> >
> > and, failing to find it, errors out. However, shortly thereafter it finds
> >
> >   /usr/local/lib/swift/shims/module.map
>
> Hi Jason,
>
> Could you try unpacking the archive somewhere under your home
> directory and trying to run the REPL from there?  We haven't tested
> installing the package into / or /usr/local, and since there is no
> automated way to uninstall it, we are not recommending to install the
> .tar.gz packages into / or /usr/local.
>
> Dmitri
>
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