Need help getting mit-scheme

[DemonBlade]

I'm a noob to Knoppix and Linux in general and I'm trying to install mit-scheme on knoppix but I'm having trouble. I already tried
apt-get install mit-scheme
I really need to install this to use for class and am running out of ideas. Thanks in advance.

[Stephen]

I'm a noob to Knoppix and Linux in general and I'm trying to install mit-scheme on knoppix but I'm having trouble. I already tried
apt-get install mit-scheme
I really need to install this to use for class and am running out of ideas. Thanks in advance.

Can you post the output of the command so we can see it? Are you running from the HD or CD?

[DemonBlade]

I am running off the CD. I try apt-get install mit-scheme under user knoppix and get

W: Not using locking for read only lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock
E: Unable to write to /var/cache/apt/
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

I switch to root and get the same response. After remounting /KNOPPIX to rw I get

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package mit-scheme

It says it can't find the package but on debian.org's site they call the package mit-scheme. The link is

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/...it-scheme.html

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[DemonBlade]

I also just tried downloading the package from the above site directly and installing it with kpackage but it won't let me. This is the message I get.

<kpackage/mit-scheme_7.7.90-4_i386.deb' echo RESULT=$?
dpkg: unable to create /var/lib/dpkg/updates/tmp.i: Permission denied
RESULT=2

Any ideas?

[Stephen]

You can not install most[1] software to the CD it is read only if you wish to install new software you will need to install to the HD.

[1] Some software like the flash plugin and drivers can be installed to the ramdisk but it is not really practical for programs.

[DemonBlade]

I see. Do you know of any way I can install it to ramdisk? If not, is there some other way I can compile scheme code?

[DemonBlade]

Any ideas at all?

[jbreiden]

You can install knoppix to your hard drive (wiping out
your hard drive!) with knoppix-installer. Then you will
be able to add scheme like any other debian package.

Or you can remaster your own custom version of knoppix
to include the mit-scheme package. There's plenty of
documentation discussing how to remaster knoppix if you
look for it and your fellow classmates might be eternally
grateful.

But if you are really just concerned with running MIT
scheme, you could just get the binaries from
http://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/, untar them
onto a USB thumb drive, and run them from there. I can't
guarantee that it will work, but I suspect it would. No
need to fuss with the Debian package.