Alt-period is the magic CTRL-BREAK keystroke you are looking for.

I have ALWAYS had trouble installing FreeType beyond version 0.433, plus I run all my images from the same VM that already had the plugins in that directory, so I just manually load FFI, then an old copy of FreeType (using Montico like you pointed out). On the older versions, I install the FreeTypeSubPixelAntiAliasing as well, but if you got 0.5 to install you probably don't need that.

I think it's the plugin installation that is generally troublesome. It used to work right from the Universe Browser after running Level Playing Field, but basically you did everything "right!" I would just create a directory for your VM and plugins and set up a file association to squeak images, and then install just FFI and FreeType in the future and you should be good!

Take care,

Rob

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Andrey Larionov anlarionov@gmail.comwrote:

Hello, I'm trying to install FreeType from Universe, but no success. If i select FreeType Plus 0.5 and press install button it installs FFI 3.9.1, and then hangs on installation of FreeType plugin installer 0.16. Then i close image (force without save) and open again. And select to install FreeType plugin installer 0.16 (without any other packages). In this way package installs. Then is select to install FreeType plugin 0.5 and click on button. It installs FFI and when starts FreeType 0.5 installation it hangs. Then i close image (force without save), cleans all downloaded resources (.sar, .dll, .mcz in all folders) and open again. Separatly install plugin installer and FFI and on FreeType 0.5 it hangs again. Then i close image and clean resources. After it i download .mcz for FreeType plugin from SqueakMap and put in package-cache in hope, what it simply cannot download. But no success. After again cleaning and restarting i install plugin installer and FFI, and then load FreeType plugin from mcz using Monticelo Browser. And now it's works.

Any suggestions? My enviroment: WinXP SP3 with lastest updates on VirtualBox under Ubuntu 8.10. Affected vms: SqueakVM-Win32-3.10.6-bin, Squeak3.10.2-7179. Affected images: sq3.10.2-7179dev09.03.1.zip, sq3.9.1-7075dev09.03.1.zip, Squeak3.10.2-7179-basic.zip.

As i rememeber in Squeak there is some magic keystroke, which breaks currently running tasks and brings debugger. Can you referesh my mind?

Thanks/

Andrey -

There is a known issue with the installation of FFI. Try the following: Copy your image (so you don't mess up anything you care about), then from Universes install FFI, and ONLY FFI. Once installed save and quit the image. Start it again, and try to install Freetype. If it is the problem I suspect it is (http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6980), then this should work.

Cheers, - Andreas

Andrey Larionov wrote:

Hello, I'm trying to install FreeType from Universe, but no success. If i select FreeType Plus 0.5 and press install button it installs FFI 3.9.1, and then hangs on installation of FreeType plugin installer 0.16. Then i close image (force without save) and open again. And select to install FreeType plugin installer 0.16 (without any other packages). In this way package installs. Then is select to install FreeType plugin 0.5 and click on button. It installs FFI and when starts FreeType 0.5 installation it hangs. Then i close image (force without save), cleans all downloaded resources (.sar, .dll, .mcz in all folders) and open again. Separatly install plugin installer and FFI and on FreeType 0.5 it hangs again. Then i close image and clean resources. After it i download .mcz for FreeType plugin from SqueakMap and put in package-cache in hope, what it simply cannot download. But no success. After again cleaning and restarting i install plugin installer and FFI, and then load FreeType plugin from mcz using Monticelo Browser. And now it's works.

Any suggestions? My enviroment: WinXP SP3 with lastest updates on VirtualBox under Ubuntu 8.10. Affected vms: SqueakVM-Win32-3.10.6-bin, Squeak3.10.2-7179. Affected images: sq3.10.2-7179dev09.03.1.zip, sq3.9.1-7075dev09.03.1.zip, Squeak3.10.2-7179-basic.zip.

As i rememeber in Squeak there is some magic keystroke, which breaks currently running tasks and brings debugger. Can you referesh my mind?

Thanks/