[slime-devel] Newbie problem: Slime won't start.. . .

[Daimrod]

Lawrence Bottorff <galaxybeingplan9 at gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks, that worked. However, I already had done the standard
> uninstall/remove for both through "Ubuntu Software Center". Maybe have
> a note of warning on your webpage about Ubuntu's woes. . . .
>
>
> Thanks again.
>
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Stas Boukarev <stassats at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>     
>     Lawrence Bottorff <galaxybeingplan9 at gmail.com> writes:
>     
>     > I've got this error when I M-x slime for the first time:
>     >
>     >  LOAD: A file with name
>     >       /usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp does
>     not exist
>     >
>     > I'm on Ubuntu 11.10 and have clisp installed through/as an
>     Ubuntu package;
>     > otherwise, I'm using your latest (slime-2012-02-09). Any ideas
>     what I've
>     > done wrong?
>     
>     Purge previous installations of slime, dpkg --purge slime cl-swank
>     --
>     With best regards, Stas.
>     

I think that the easier way to install SLIME, and everything related to
CL that is not a lisp implementation, is quicklisp.

(ql:quickload :quicklisp-slime-helper) and you're done.

See http://www.mohiji.org/2011/01/modern-common-lisp-on-linux/ for a
quick HOWTO.