in reply to [RAKU] How to install zef on Ubuntu 22.04

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$ raku -I. bin/zef install .

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So, what was the output of the above command? Where does raku claim it installed the zef binary?

Does that file actually exist?

Can you invoke it with a full path, like /usr/bin/whatever/zef?

Personally I would never clone a git directory into /usr/src and always build as the local user, not root, but maybe Ubuntu is different - I use Debian...

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Re^2: [RAKU] How to install zef on Ubuntu 22.04
by Polyglot (Chaplain) on Dec 28, 2023 at 08:35 UTC
    The output of that command was this: 
    ===> Staging zef:ver<0.21.2>:auth<github:ugexe>:api<0>
===> Staging [OK] for zef:ver<0.21.2>:auth<github:ugexe>:api<0>
No such method 'remove-artifacts' for invocant of type
'CompUnit::Repository::Staging'

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    Raku makes no claims, so far as I can see, to even having installed zef, much less telling me the path to it. When I navigate to /usr/src/zef/bin and run zef directly, I still get this: 
    /usr/src/zef/bin# zef
Command 'zef' not found, did you mean:
  command 'zed' from deb zfs-zed (2.1.5-1ubuntu6~22.04.1)
  command 'zec' from deb zec (0.12-5)
Try: apt install <deb name>

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    In order to actually execute it, I must invoke it as a script, or run it with Raku, like this: 
    /usr/src/zef/bin# raku zef
===SORRY!=== Error while compiling /usr/src/zef/bin/zef
Could not find Zef::CLI in:
    inst#/root/.raku
    inst#/usr/lib/perl6/site
    inst#/usr/lib/perl6/vendor
    inst#/usr/lib/perl6/core
    ap#
    nqp#
    perl5#
at /usr/src/zef/bin/zef:3

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    ...and you can see the result there. This is the same result as if trying to run it via the full path, i.e. /usr/src/zef/bin/zef.

    Note that no man pages exist for zef, and a which zef command returns empty.

    Blessings,

    ~Polyglot~

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      Yes, I think you should debug why the installation instructions fail.

      As for the "zef binary not found" part, you seem to be running as root and traditionally, the current directory (., dot) is not in the search path. You want to try to execute zef by launching it as ./zef or /usr/src/zef/bin/zef.

      Launching the zef script as raku zef seems to indicate that some prerequisites are missing or that the raku search path is not set up correctly for launching this. Most likely you want to launch it as raku -Ilib bin/zef from the repository main directory, /usr/src/zef.

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        That got me a little farther, +1. The install failed unless run as root, but as root, resulted in this: 
        # raku -Ilib bin/zef install DBIish
===> Searching for: DBIish
===> Searching for missing dependencies: NativeHelpers::Blob, NativeLi
+bs:ver<0.0.9+>:auth<github:salortiz>, NativeCall::TypeDiag
===> Searching for missing dependencies: File::Temp
===> Searching for missing dependencies: File::Directory::Tree
===> Staging NativeHelpers::Blob:ver<0.1.12>:auth<github:salortiz>
===> Staging [OK] for NativeHelpers::Blob:ver<0.1.12>:auth<github:salo
+rtiz>
===> Staging NativeLibs:ver<0.0.9>:auth<github:salortiz>
===> Staging [OK] for NativeLibs:ver<0.0.9>:auth<github:salortiz>
===> Staging File::Directory::Tree
===> Staging [OK] for File::Directory::Tree
===> Staging File::Temp:ver<0.0.10>:auth<zef:rbt>
===> Staging [OK] for File::Temp:ver<0.0.10>:auth<zef:rbt>
===> Staging NativeCall::TypeDiag
===> Staging [OK] for NativeCall::TypeDiag
===> Staging DBIish:ver<0.6.6>:auth<zef:raku-community-modules>:api<1>
===> Staging [OK] for DBIish:ver<0.6.6>:auth<zef:raku-community-module
+s>:api<1>
No such method 'remove-artifacts' for invocant of type
'CompUnit::Repository::Staging'

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        However, not being able to install normally means that even "installed" modules aren't found... 
        ===SORRY!=== Error while compiling /home/myuser/rakusessiontest.raku
Could not find DBIish in:
    inst#/root/.raku
    inst#/usr/lib/perl6/site
    inst#/usr/lib/perl6/vendor
    inst#/usr/lib/perl6/core
    ap#
    nqp#
    perl5#
at /home/myuser/rakusessiontest.raku:4

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        I'm not sure where to go from here. My "zef" is not yet working properly, it seems. The online guides for working around the problem of this library not being included in this linux distribution are either incomplete or out-of-date. As an ubuntu user for the past twenty years, I'm not ready to switch distros. Maybe I'll have to wait until April 2024 when the next Ubuntu LTS comes out before I can use Raku? That would be a terrible delay.

        Blessings,

        ~Polyglot~

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