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

[Liyu Cai]

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Hi Richard & All,

After reboot, the problem solved.

# Detail -- all changes happened
1. the toolchain is unzipped to '/opt' folder and its ownship is changed to
the current user.
2. the 'SWIFT_HOME' value in the '/etc/profile.d/swift.sh' is updated to
'/opt/swift'
3. reboot the system


On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 8:52 PM, Liyu Cai <liyu.move at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, it works if one install the toolchain directly in '/usr/local' as you
> said.
> //
> The problem here is it SEEMS the toolchain can only use the absolute path '
> /usr/local/bin/repl_swift' to look for 'repl_swift', instead of a
> relative w.r.t the current path of 'swift' command.
> //
> The absolute-path-only case may bring extra works when one want to
> uninstall/reconfigure/upgrade the toolchian.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 8:28 PM, Richard Stahl <rstahl at me.com> wrote:
>
>> 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> 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> 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 and 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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>>
>>
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