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Installation instructions for Ubuntu 18.04 #2992

Open stuarthillary opened 6 years ago

stuarthillary commented 6 years ago

Following a fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04, I followed the instructions here http://dev.realworldocaml.org/install.html to install OPAM. I needed to install an extra package:

i.e. change sudo apt-get install curl build-essential m4 zlib1g-dev libssl-dev ocaml ocaml-native-compilers opam to sudo apt-get install curl build-essential m4 zlib1g-dev libssl-dev ocaml ocaml-native-compilers opam libgmp-dev

If I did not do this, when trying to run: opam install async yojson core_extended core_bench cohttp async_graphics cryptokit menhir

I would encounter an error (the dependency conf-gmp relied on a missing external system dependency i.e. libgmp-dev). Note, I was using opam 4.06.1 .

j-m-hoffmann commented 6 years ago

thank you

NathanReb commented 5 years ago

I think the proper fix to that is to suggest using opam depext to get the packages external dependencies rather than suggesting to install libgmp which isn't required by opam.