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

[Richard Stahl]

Hmm..   I just installed swift on a Ubuntu AWS EC2 instance with no problem.  I installed the swift toolchain in ‘/usr/local’ and set my PATH as appropriated—no problems.  Have you tried installing in a location other than /usr/local/lib and *not* setting ‘LD_LIBRARY_PATH or SWIFT_HOME?

> On Jul 31, 2016, at 8:00 AM, Liyu Cai <liyu.move at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> yes, I did:
> 
> ```bash
> u at tX:~$ clang --version
> Ubuntu clang version 3.4-1ubuntu3 (tags/RELEASE_34/final) (based on LLVM 3.4)
> Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> Thread model: posix
> ```
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 7:46 PM, Richard Stahl <rstahl at me.com <mailto:rstahl at me.com>> wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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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