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

[Stas Boukarev]

Daimrod <daimrod at gmail.com> writes:

> 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.
That's right, but stray debian packages will affect quicklisp as well.

-- 
With best regards, Stas.