dom96/choosenim

From Mr. Chris Banda, issue with unxz for choosenim-0.8.2_macosx_amd64

StefanSalewski opened this issue · 2 comments

StefanSalewski commented

Dear Sir,

unfortunately I am not the right person for problems related to
problems during the install process of the Nim compiler environment.

I stated in my book very clearly, that the book will not really try to
explain the install process -- for various reasons.

You are using the tool choosenim on macosx_amd64:

One obvious problem seems to be, that the program unxz is not
available. I can not tell you how you can install that tool on macosx,
but it is from this package: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils

I will forward your message to the choosenim github issue tracker, see
https://github.com/dom96/choosenim in the hope that Mr. Picheta can
tell you more details. Generally, for problems with the Nim install
process you should try to use one of these issue trackers:

https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues
https://github.com/dom96/choosenim
https://forum.nim-lang.org/

If you are not able to contact these destinations, I am willing to
forward your requests.

Best wishes,

Dr. Stefan Salewski.

On Thu, 2021-12-09 at 19:41 +0200, Chris Banda wrote:

Hello Dr Stefan,

I trust this email finds you well. I'm trying to install Nim on my
machine,
this script is not working, I keep getting an error message.

~ % curl https://nim-lang.org/choosenim/init.sh -sSf | sh

choosenim-init: Downloading choosenim-0.8.2_macosx_amd64

  • Prompt: *Can choosenim record and send anonymised telemetry data?
    [y/n]

  •    ... *Anonymous aggregate user analytics allow us to prioritise

  •    ... *fixes and features based on how, where and when people

use
Nim.

  •    ... *For more details see: https://goo.gl/NzUEPf.

  • Answer: *y

*Downloading *Nim 1.6.0 from nim-lang.org

[##################################################] 100.0% 0kb/s

  • Extracting *nim-1.6.0.tar.xz

  •   Tip: *1 messages have been suppressed, use --verbose to show

them.

  • Error: *Execution failed with exit code 127

  •    ... *Command: unxz /Users/tm/.choosenim/downloads/nim-

1.6.0.tar.xz

  •    ... *Output: /bin/sh: unxz: command not found
dom96 commented

Need more info, what macOS version is this? Newer versions should have unxz bundled afaik

tvooo commented

Just tried to install nim on macOS Monterey, 12.1 (21C52), and ran into the same issue. I have the XCode CLI tools installed. Looks like latest macOS don't ship with it anymore.

I installed xz via Homebrew and after that the nim installation worked fine. Maybe worth adding a note to the install docs.

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