[swift-users] 'REPL not exist' when Install Swift 3(RC3) on Ubuntu 14.04

[Richard Stahl]

Did you install ‘clang’? E.g.(from instructions):


On Linux

First, install clang:

$ sudo apt-get install clang


> On Jul 31, 2016, at 5:57 AM, Liyu Cai via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> So I was trying to install swift 3 (RC3) on a Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (64 bits) laptop, but get an REPL missing error.
> 
> # What happened
> ```bash
> cd /usr/local/lib
> tar xvf swift-3.0-PREVIEW-3-ubuntu14.04.tar.gz
> sudo ln -s swift-3.0-PREVIEW-3-ubuntu14.04 swift
> ```
> 
> then, created "/etc/profile.d/swift.sh" with following content:
> ```bash
> export SWIFT_HOME=/usr/local/lib/swift
> export PATH=$SWIFT_HOME/usr/bin:$PATH
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$SWIFT_HOME/usr/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> export LIBRARY_PATH=$SWIFT_HOME/usr/lib:$LIBRARY_PATH
> ```
> 
> then, 'source' the .sh file in a terminal and start `swift` :
> ```bash
> source /etc/profile.d/swift.sh
> swift
> ```
> 
> and get following error:
> ```bash
> error: REPL executable does not exist: '/usr/local/bin/repl_swift'
> ```
> 
> However, 'swift --version' works with following output:
> ```bash
> Swift version 3.0 (swift-3.0-PREVIEW-3)
> Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> ```
> 
> # Try to solve
> Thoughts there are some steps may be missed, so I re-checked the 
> docs on swift.org <http://swift.org/> and swift.org/lldb <http://swift.org/lldb> , but no lucks. Neither does the
> blogs I found on how to set up Swift on Ubuntu OS.
> 
> (One can just create a sybolic link of repl_swift under /usr/local/bin, but it bring more works to uninstall/reconfigure Swfit dev env)
> 
> Did anyone have met this before? Anything I can try? Or,possibly,  there are sth to be done with the release itself...
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