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| GNU Guile is an extension/scripting language implementation based on Scheme, and we use it to provide a rich, fully-programmable user interface with minimal effort. It's free, of course, and you can download it from the [http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/ Guile Home Page]. (Guile is typically included with GNU/Linux systems.) | GNU Guile is an extension/scripting language implementation based on Scheme, and we use it to provide a rich, fully-programmable user interface with minimal effort. It's free, of course, and you can download it from the [http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/ Guile Home Page]. (Guile is typically included with GNU/Linux systems.) | ||
| - | * '''Important''': Most [[w:Linux distribution|Linux distributions]] come with Guile already installed. Do ''not'' install your own version of Guile from source — having two versions of Guile on the same system will cause problems. However, by default most distributions install only the Guile libraries and not the programming headers — to compile libctl and MPB, you should install the "guile-devel" or "guile-dev" package (e.g. with [[w:RPM Package Manager|RPM]]) that ''came with your system''. | + | * '''Important''': Most [[w:Linux distribution|Linux distributions]] come with Guile already installed (check by seeing whether you can run <code>guile --version</code> from the command line). In that case ''not'' install your own version of Guile from source — having two versions of Guile on the same system will cause problems. However, by default most distributions install only the Guile libraries and not the programming headers — to compile libctl and MPB, you should install the "guile-devel" or "guile-dev" package (e.g. with [[w:RPM Package Manager|RPM]]) that ''came with your system''. |
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GNU Guile is an extension/scripting language implementation based on Scheme, and we use it to provide a rich, fully-programmable user interface with minimal effort. It's free, of course, and you can download it from the Guile Home Page. (Guile is typically included with GNU/Linux systems.)
- Important: Most Linux distributions come with Guile already installed (check by seeing whether you can run
guile --versionfrom the command line). In that case not install your own version of Guile from source — having two versions of Guile on the same system will cause problems. However, by default most distributions install only the Guile libraries and not the programming headers — to compile libctl and MPB, you should install the "guile-devel" or "guile-dev" package (e.g. with RPM) that came with your system.
