How to install Squeak 5.0 on Ubuntu 15.10 64-bit

How to install Squeak 5.0 on Ubuntu 15.10 64-bit

Squeak 5.0 stable as of this writing (3/21/2016) only supports 32-bit on Linux. To get this to work on 64-bit install follow the instructions below.

Download Squeak 5.0 from http://squeak.org/
Extract to location, e.g., ~/apps/

Open a console

$: cd ~/Downloads
$: unzip Squeak-5.0-All-in-One.zip -d ~/apps/

Get 32-bit libraries

Use the Squeak built-in script to get most (not all is installed)

$: cd ~/apps/Squeak-5.0-All-in-One
$: Squeak-5.0-All-in-One.app/Contents/LinuxAndWindows/install-libs32

This will fail with the error message below (at least on Ubuntu 15.10)

Fail with the following error message:
E: Unable to locate package lib32bz2-1.0
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'lib32bz2-1.0'
E: Unable to locate package libgl1-mesa-dri-lts-utopic
E: Unable to locate package libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-utopic

Let us fix this by running command below:

$: sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
$: sudo apt-get update
$: sudo apt install lib32z1
$: sudo apt install libuuid1:i386
$: sudo apt install libgl1-mesa-glx:i386
$: sudo apt install libsm6:i386

Enjoy~

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