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

Question

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

possible duplicate of [How to install Clojure on Ubuntu 10.04 from Github repo with no clojure.jar](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5983427/how-to-install-clojure-on-ubuntu-10-04-from-github-repo-with-no-clojure-jar) — amalloy, Oct 21 '11 at 03:55
Are you on ubuntu 10.10? It installs without problems on Ubuntu 10.04. However I would strongly **recommend against** installing clojure from the repos - In ubuntu 10.10 the version shipped is clojure 1.1.0, the current version of clojure is 1.3.0. Clojure evolves pretty fast so to stay up to date leiningen is a much better option. — Paul, Oct 21 '11 at 07:14

jayunit100 · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-20T16:02:57.847

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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 :

copying this shell script: https://raw.github.com/technomancy/leiningen/stable/bin/lein
moving it to /usr/local/bin
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.

edited Apr 20 '12 at 16:02

answered Oct 21 '11 at 17:56

jayunit100

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Note that you can do this without `sudo` privileges, by placing it in your `~/bin` directory (or any other directory on your `PATH`). – amalloy Apr 20 '12 at 00:22
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"it it is not the preferred way to install Clojure." Can you explain why? – Burhan Ali Sep 18 '12 at 21:17
If I have installed Clojure using apt-get, how do I remove it completely and re-install using this method making sure, nothing clashes ? – Amogh Talpallikar Apr 08 '13 at 11:42
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@AmoghTalpallikar To fully remove lein as installed via apt-get use: `sudo apt-get purge lein` – Brendan Maguire Apr 09 '13 at 19:00

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 26 '13 at 09:46

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Just a no-brainer script to install leiningen:

cd `mktemp -d`
wget https://raw.github.com/technomancy/leiningen/stable/bin/lein
chmod +x lein 
sudo mv lein /usr/local/bin/
lein help
cd -

answered Oct 26 '13 at 09:46

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score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 25 '12 at 14:37

apt-get install leiningen works, and easily installs Clojure dependencies (including ones you probably don't need, but it is easy). Debian sid has 1.7.1, which is the most recent stable version; Ubuntu 12.04 has this available in universe. Then you can follow the lein instructions.

Leiningen 2.0 is coming soon; maybe that will become available in a PPA when it is finalized.

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 23 '13 at 10:12

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See recommendations from official site http://clojure.org/downloads . "Get Clojure via Leiningen" section.

answered Apr 23 '13 at 10:12

Yaroslav Fedoruk

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

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