Bug#653240: rakudo: 'perl6' command with no arguments results in "PARROT VM: Could not load bytecode Could not load oplib `io_ops'"

[Steve Lane]

Package: rakudo
Version: 0.1~2011.07-1
Severity: normal


It is my understanding from the documentation that simply typing
'perl6' on the command line should put me into interactive mode (based
on http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo/).

Instead I get the error message:

PARROT VM: Could not load bytecode
Could not load oplib `io_ops'

So... it looks like something is missing.  This was my install (note
that this machine is running stable, not testing, so perhaps that is
part of the problem..?):

  root at linux> apt-get install rakudo parrot-devel/testing
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  Selected version '3.6.0-1' (Debian:testing [amd64]) for 'parrot-devel'
  The following extra packages will be installed:
    libparrot-dev libparrot2.0.0 libparrot3.6.0 parrot parrot-devel parrot-minimal
  Suggested packages:
    parrot-doc
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    libparrot-dev libparrot2.0.0 libparrot3.6.0 parrot parrot-devel parrot-minimal rakudo

all of which went perfectly smoothly.

Thanks/best

--
Steve Lane

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages rakudo depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-10  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libparrot3.6.0                3.6.0-1    Parrot shared library
ii  libreadline6                  6.1-3      GNU readline and history libraries
ii  parrot-devel                  3.6.0-1    Parrot development tools

rakudo recommends no packages.

rakudo suggests no packages.

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