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From: Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Installing gForth on the Raspberry Pi
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:16:29 -0800
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Steve Graham <solitary.wanderer52@gmail.com> writes:
> Did you ever get this working?  Just got a RPi.

Looks like the Raspian repo was missing gforth.  No idea if it still is.
But there's a working one in the regular Debian repos, and the Gforth
guys here have said it's preferable to build from source because the
Debian maintainers set it up with sub-optimal configuration options.