the computers my school has are pretty bad, has only 218mb RAM and is quite old (8 years i think ), i'm not sure of the version of Redhat its using but i'll try and download other linux binaries or build from source thanks for the quick reply <div>On 11/13/09, Eli Barzilay <<a href="mailto:eli@barzilay.org">eli@barzilay.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Nov 13, Charlie Smith wrote: > hi, > > i'm having a problem getting plt-scheme installed on the redhat > linux machine that i'm using at school and since i'm unfamiliar with > linux, I don't know if the problem is due to restrictions in the > system or not. > > when i run scheme from the terminal i get this error > > Floating point exception > > i'd appreciate if someone could give me some pointers on fixing this IIRC, this error was caused by incompatible libc in RH and/or Fedora. It will probably go away if you compile from source -- or you can try some of the other linux builds.牋(But last time I've seen this was a while ago -- maybe you're using an old version?) -- 牋牋牋牋牋((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x)))牋牋牋牋牋Eli Barzilay: 牋牋牋牋牋牋牋牋牋牋<a href="http://barzilay.org/">http://barzilay.org/</a>牋牋牋牋牋牋牋牋牋 Maze is Life! </blockquote></div>