Getting Pharo running from the command line

September 28, 2021 ยท View on GitHub

Here are some simple steps to get Pharo ready from the command line. The script assumes that you have a bin folder in your home directory.

The following script downloads the stable vm version of Pharo 80. Check the web page https://get.pharo.org/64/ to get the possible choices.

mkdir bin
cd bin
curl https://get.pharo.org/64/vm80 | bash

This script creates two scripts, pharo-ui and pharo-vm both using the contents of the Pharo folder that is also created.

Once installed you can execute pharo as follows:

./pharo-ui Pharo8.image 

If you do not want Pharo displaying a user interface as a pop-up, you can invoke it as follows:

./pharo Pharo8.image