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<p dir="auto">Hmm, I don’t get that at all:</p>

<p dir="auto">Welcome to Swift version 3.0 (swift-3.0-RELEASE). Type :help for assistance.<br>
  1&gt; import Foundation<br>
  2&gt; NSURL(string:"<a href="http://swift.org%22" style="color:#3983C4">http://swift.org"</a>)<br>
$R0: Foundation.NSURL? = 0x0000000000427f00 {<br>
  Foundation.NSObject = {}<br>
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    info = 7552<br>
    pad = 0<br>
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  _flags = 536887337<br>
  _encoding = 0<br>
  _string = 0x0000000000427bd0 -&gt; 0x00007ffff475d720 full type metadata for Foundation.NSString + 16<br>
  _baseURL = nil<br>
  _extra = nil<br>
  _resourceInfo = nil<br>
  _range1 = {<br>
    location = 0<br>
    length = 4<br>
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<p dir="auto">… more of the same …</p>

<p dir="auto">On 20 Sep 2016, at 22:28, Bouke Haarsma via swift-users wrote:</p>

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<p class="p1">On 2016-09-20 16:37:18 +0000, Lane Schwartz via swift-users said:</p>
<p class="p2"><br></p>
<p class="p1">In addition to the installation instructions per swift.org, I also needed to install "libpython2.7-dev". When starting the Swift REPL it threw the following error;</p>
<p class="p2"><br></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">...swift/usr/bin/lldb: error while loading shared libraries: libpython2.7.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory</span></p>
<p class="p2"><br></p>
<p class="p1">Installing that package resolved that issue. However the REPL loads, it throws errors like this:</p>
<p class="p2"><br></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s2"><b>ubuntu-1604</b></span><span class="s3">:</span><span class="s4"><b>~</b></span><span class="s3">$ swift</span></p>
<p class="p5"><span class="s2">Welcome to Swift version 3.0 (swift-3.0-RELEASE). Type :help for assistance.</span></p>
<p class="p5"><span class="s5"><span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>1&gt; </span><span class="s2">import Foundation</span></p>
<p class="p5"><span class="s5"><span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>2&gt; </span><span class="s2">NSURL(string: "http://swift.org")</span></p>
<p class="p5"><span class="s2">error: Couldn't lookup symbols:</span></p>
<p class="p5"><span class="s2"><span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>type metadata accessor for Foundation.NSURL</span></p>
<p class="p5"><span class="s2"><span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Foundation.NSURL.__allocating_init (string : Swift.String) -&gt; Swift.Optional&lt;Foundation.NSURL&gt;</span></p>
<p class="p2"><br></p>
<p class="p1">I've downgraded to 14.04 LTS.</p>
<p class="p2"><br></p>
<p class="p6"><span class="s6">Thanks.</span></p>
<p class="p7"><span class="s6"></span><br></p>
<p class="p7"><span class="s6"></span><br></p>
<p class="p8"><span class="s6">On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Ron Olson via swift-users </span><span class="s7">&lt;<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org"><span class="s8">swift-users@swift.org</span></a>&gt;</span><span class="s6"> wrote:</span></p>
<p class="p8"><span class="s6">I downloaded the Ubuntu 15 release.</span></p>
<p class="p9"><span class="s6"></span><br></p>
<p class="p8"><span class="s6">On 20 Sep 2016, at 11:26, Lane Schwartz wrote:</span></p>
<p class="p9"><span class="s6"></span><br></p>
<p class="p10"><span class="s6">Thanks, Ron. Which binary release did you download? The ubuntu 15 release? Or the 14 release?</span></p>
<p class="p11"><span class="s6"></span><br></p>
<p class="p8"><span class="s6">On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Ron Olson via swift-users </span><span class="s7">&lt;<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org"><span class="s8">swift-users@swift.org</span></a>&gt;</span><span class="s6"> wrote:</span></p>
<p class="p8"><span class="s6">I can verify that the 3.0 Release works under 16; I downloaded it this morning and it works fine.</span></p>
<p class="p9"><span class="s6"></span><br></p>
<p class="p9"><span class="s6"></span><br></p>
<p class="p8"><span class="s6">On 20 Sep 2016, at 11:10, Lane Schwartz via swift-users wrote:</span></p>
<p class="p9"><span class="s6"></span><br></p>
<p class="p8"><span class="s6">I see that there are swift packages for Ubuntu 14 and 15, but not 16. Is</span></p>
<p class="p8"><span class="s6">Swift 3.0 known to work with Ubuntu 16? Can either of the aforementioned</span></p>
<p class="p8"><span class="s6">binary releases be used, or is compilation from source required?</span></p>
<p class="p9"><span class="s6"></span><br></p>
<p class="p8"><span class="s6">Thanks,</span></p>
<p class="p8"><span class="s6">Lane</span></p>
<p class="p8"><span class="s6">_______________________________________________</span></p>
<p class="p8"><span class="s6">swift-users mailing list</span></p>
<p class="p12"><span class="s9"><a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org">swift-users@swift.org</a></span></p>
<p class="p12"><span class="s9"><a href="https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users</a></span></p>
<p class="p8"><span class="s6">_______________________________________________</span></p>
<p class="p8"><span class="s6">swift-users mailing list</span></p>
<p class="p12"><span class="s9"><a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org">swift-users@swift.org</a></span></p>
<p class="p12"><span class="s9"><a href="https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users</a></span></p>
<p class="p11"><span class="s6"></span><br></p>
<p class="p11"><span class="s6"></span><br></p>
<p class="p11"><span class="s6"></span><br></p>
<p class="p10"><span class="s6">--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
<p class="p10"><span class="s6">When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not</span></p>
<p class="p10"><span class="s6">far away.  It is time to go elsewhere.  The best thing about space travel</span></p>
<p class="p10"><span class="s6">is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.</span></p>
<p class="p10"><span class="s6">                -- R.A. Heinlein, "Time Enough For Love"</span></p>
<p class="p9"><span class="s6"></span><br></p>
<p class="p9"><span class="s6"></span><br></p>
<p class="p8"><span class="s6">_______________________________________________</span></p>
<p class="p8"><span class="s6">swift-users mailing list</span></p>
<p class="p12"><span class="s9"><a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org">swift-users@swift.org</a></span></p>
<p class="p12"><span class="s9"><a href="https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users</a></span></p>
<p class="p9"><span class="s6"></span><br></p>
<p class="p7"><span class="s6"></span><br></p>
<p class="p7"><span class="s6"></span><br></p>
<p class="p7"><span class="s6"></span><br></p>
<p class="p6"><span class="s6">--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
<p class="p6"><span class="s6">When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not</span></p>
<p class="p6"><span class="s6">far away.  It is time to go elsewhere.  The best thing about space travel</span></p>
<p class="p6"><span class="s6">is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.</span></p>
<p class="p6"><span class="s6">                -- R.A. Heinlein, "Time Enough For Love"</span></p>
<p class="p13">_______________________________________________</p>
<p class="p13">swift-users mailing list</p>
<p class="p13">swift-users@swift.org</p>
<p class="p13">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users</p>
<p class="p14"><br></p>
<p class="p15"><br></p>
<p class="p16">--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="p16">-Bouke</p></blockquote>
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