Comment 2 for bug 2930

The squeak virtual machine requires a runtime image in order to run (the image contains all the objects and code to run ). After installing the squeak packages I noticed there were no .image files on the system.

From "man squeak":

       The image and changes files contain the state of a user’s Squeak session, which is per‐
       sistent between consecutive sessions. Private copies of these files are therefore nor‐
       mally required. The inisqueak script checks that the local Squeak installation appears
       sane, and then copies the required files to the current working directory. If inisqueak
       encounters no problems, it will finish by running squeak to start a Squeak session using
       the newly copied image and changes files.

       inisqueak should be run once, when using Squeak for the first time, to create a new
       ’personal’ Squeak session. Afterwards, squeak should be run each time that session is
       to be resumed.

The man page further mentions:

FILES
       /usr/lib/squeak/SqueakV3.sources
              Shared system sources file for the Squeak image. There must be a copy of (or
              link to) this file in the working directory when running squeak.

/usr/lib/squeak/Squeak*.changes
              Distributed image and changes files holding a ‘shapshot’ of a live Squeak ses‐
              sion. (The contents of these files change during a session, and so private
              copies should always be made before running squeak for the first time. See
              inisqueak(1)).

       ./SqueakV3.sources
              A link to the system sources file.

       ./name.image
       ./name.changes
              Private copies of image and changes files.

       /usr/lib/squeak/3.7-7/*.so
       /usr/lib/squeak/3.7-7/*.la
              Virtual machine ’plugins’ (containing primitives that are loaded on demand) and
              drivers (for different types of display and sound hardware).

       /usr/bin/squeak
       /usr/bin/inisqueak
              The Squeak virtual machine and personal image installer script.

There is no /usr/bin/inisqueak, or do there appear to be any /usr/lib/squeak/Squeak*.image files.

The installed squeak binaries work with a .image file from the main squeak distribution and works fine, the only problem I see is theres no way to create a new image from the stock packages.