Lisp on SuSE Linux 9.1 ???

[jshebell]

I'm a perpetual newbie, but I do enjoy learning about Linux and try to stay current. I'm about to order SuSE Linux 9.1. Does anyone know if this distro comes with Lisp, or if a variant of Lisp is available that will run on this distro? I've always wanted to try learning a little bit of Lisp, and I figure I might as well get started as soon as I get 9.1.

Thanks in advance for any assistance you can give.

[bwkaz]

GNU clisp (which is an ANSI Common Lisp) should run on most any distro. I'm not sure if it would come with SuSE or not, but if not, you can go to http://clisp.cons.org/ to get the source for it. Going that way will require that you install most of the development packages that come with SuSE (for example, glibc-devel, gcc (the compiler), readline and readline-devel, and some others). Check the output of clisp's ./configure --help to see what compile-time options are available before you do the fairly standard ./configure --options && make && su -c "make install" needed to install packages from source.