[dh83]

Yep I can only agree with you, and there is some communication issue for the matter of the image/vm downloads.

Some measures have been taken especially if you run from the commandline use the zeroconf scripts from http://files.pharo.org/scripts. However still some issue remain that are currently not nice!

- no full 64bit support (will be addressed but with a 32bit image format this isn't that straight forward) - missing warning to install 32bit libs under linux (workaround on the way) - proper packaging (rpm / deb) which installs the dependencies is missing (also, there are some attempts there) - you have to explicitly tell the VM to run headless or not (I honestly don't know why! :D)

All in all you caught us, we mostly develop on mac, however our test infrastructure is running on linux hence imperatively Pharo has to run under linux. Yet there is some need for proper explanations, installation requirements!