I'm always surprised when I see that people are still installing the Pharo Virtual Machine by hand on Ubuntu while Damien Cassou has made a ppa for it.

The ppa contains the VM itself and an optional graphical launcher that handles Pharo images for you. It also installs Pharo properly on 64bits machines, which are the default nowadays while the Pharo VM is still 32bits.

Here's how to install it:

  sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:pharo/stable
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install pharo-vm-desktop

There's no excuse to have an outdated Pharo VM anymore!

For OSX/other Linux distributions there's always get.pharo.org.