Hi,

Installing OPAM worked fine, but most of the packages won't install because of issues with ocamlfind.

> opam install ocamlfind
The following actions will be performed:
- install ocamlfind.1.3.3
1 to install | 0 to reinstall | 0 to upgrade | 0 to downgrade | 0 to remove

=-=-= ocamlfind.1.3.3 =-=-=
The archive for ocamlfind.1.3.3 is in the local cache.
Extracting /home/deech/.opam/archives/ocamlfind.1.3.3+opam.tar.gz.
Building ocamlfind.1.3.3:
./configure -bindir /home/deech/.opam/system/bin -sitelib /home/deech/.opam/system/lib -mandir /home/deech/.opam/system/man -config /home/deech/.opam/system/lib/findlib.conf -no-topfind
make all
make opt
make install
ocamlfind remove dbm
The compilation of ocamlfind.1.3.3 failed.

==== ERROR [while installing ocamlfind.1.3.3] ====
# command         make all
# path            /home/deech/.opam/system/build/ocamlfind.1.3.3
# exit-code       2
# env-file        /home/deech/.opam/system/build/ocamlfind.1.3.3/ocamlfind-1872ec.env
# stdout-file     /home/deech/.opam/system/build/ocamlfind.1.3.3/ocamlfind-1872ec.out
# stderr-file     /home/deech/.opam/system/build/ocamlfind.1.3.3/ocamlfind-1872ec.err
### stdout ###
...[truncated]
ocamlc -I +compiler-libs -g -c findlib.ml
ocamlc -I +compiler-libs -g -c fl_args.ml
ocamlc -I +compiler-libs -a -o findlib.cma findlib_config.cmo fl_split.cmo fl_metatoken.cmo fl_meta.cmo fl_metascanner.cmo fl_topo.cmo fl_package_base.cmo findlib.cmo fl_args.cmo
ocamlc -I +compiler-libs -g -c ocaml_args.ml
ocamlc -I +compiler-libs -g -c frontend.ml
ocamlc -I +compiler-libs -custom -o ocamlfind -g findlib.cma unix.cma \
                   ocaml_args.cmo frontend.cmo
ocamlc -I +compiler-libs -c topfind.mli
ocamlc -I +compiler-libs -g -c topfind.ml
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/deech/.opam/system/build/ocamlfind.1.3.3/src/findlib'
### stderr ###
...[truncated]
Warning 26: unused variable in_direction.
File "topfind.ml", line 53, characters 10-19:
Warning 26: unused variable stdlibdir.
File "topfind.ml", line 97, characters 11-12:
Warning 26: unused variable d.
File "topfind.ml", line 1, characters 0-1:
Error: /usr/local/lib/ocaml/compiler-libs/topdirs.cmi
is not a compiled interface
make[1]: *** [topfind.cmo] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

'/usr/local/bin/opam install ocamlfind' failed.

My Ocaml version is 3.12.1

-deech

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Thomas Gazagnaire <thomas@ocamlpro.com> wrote:

I'm very happy to announce the beta release of OPAM (0.9.1). OPAM is a package manager for OCaml to install libraries and tools from source archives. It supports multiple simultaneous compiler installations, flexible package constraints, and a Git-friendly development workflow.

The goal of this beta release is to formally introduce OPAM to the community, to gather some general feedback on the documentation and tools and double-check that we've not forgotten some useful features. I would also like to use that opportunity to make an official call to maintainers: if you have developed packages which are already in OPAM do not hesitate to claim their ownership and to improve their description - if your packages are not yet in, it's time to start packaging them!

OPAM is developed by OCamlPro[1] and has been in alpha release since June 2012. It is already quite mature and has gained some nice momentum (+40 contributors, +300 packages). OPAM has been initially funded by Jane Street[2] and the DORM EU research project, and it has received continuous help and resources from OCamlLabs[3].

The source code of OPAM is available on Github:
* installer: https://github.com/OCamlpro/opam
* packages and compiler descriptions: https://github.com/OCamlPro/opam-repository
* website: https://github.com/OCamlPro/opam2web

The documention:
* install instructions and tutorial are available http://opam.ocamlpro.com/
* the main source of documentation is 'opam --help' or 'opam <command> --help'
* user manual: https://github.com/OCamlPro/opam/raw/master/doc/dev-manual/dev-manual.pdf

You can report issues on github bug tracker:
* https://github.com/OCamlPro/opam/issues

The next steps for us is to focus on improving the package descriptions quality and the global consistency of https://github.com/OCamlPro/opam-repository. We will gladly accept any kind of help and support from the community to do this! We plan to announce the release of 1.0.0 in a couple of months, with improved package quality and better integration with the future OCaml platform.

Last point, if you are working in a company and that you already use OPAM, or plan to use OPAM, and you would like to help us ensuring it a sustainable future[2], you can contact us at contact@ocamlpro.com.

On behalf of the OPAM team,
Thomas Gazagnaire

[1] http://www.ocamlpro.com/
[2] http://www.janestreet.com/
[3] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/projects/ocamllabs/

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