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Does apt-get work to install Clojure on Linux (ubuntu 10)?

I noticed that there is a package repo for Clojure, so I tried

sudo apt-get install clojure

However, the install failed, it looks like there is a java dependency missing.

I have java installed correctly on my machine: javac -version results 1.6.0_26.

In any case, I find leiningan is always an easy way to go, but thought I would try apt-get to see if it was working. Any thoughts on this error message?

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 clojure : Depends: libasm3-java but it is not going to be installed
Solution

  • To summarize the comments:

    Yes, apt-get works –

    ... BUT it it is not the preferred way to install Clojure.

    So ... whats the "right" way to install Clojure ?

    Leiningen remains the up-to-date, conventional way to rapidly get a Clojure installation up and running.

    The steps are as follows :

    1. copying this shell script: https://raw.github.com/technomancy/leiningen/stable/bin/lein
    2. moving it to /usr/local/bin
    3. calling sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/lein.

    Make sure you have Java installed first, of course.

    These steps will install Clojure on any platform with the latest version.