process inferior-lisp not running

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I installed sbcl

sudo apt-get install sbcl

then loaded quicklisp

sbcl --load ~/Downloads/quicklisp.lisp

then ran the installation command for installing quicklisp

(quicklisp-quickstart:install)

added quicklisp to my init file

(ql:add-to-init-file)

and then installed slime

(ql:quickload "quicklisp-slime-helper")

which then printed out:

(load (expand-file-name "~/quicklisp/slime-helper.el")) ;; Replace "sbcl" with the path to your implementation (setq inferior-lisp-program "sbcl")

Which I dutifully copied to my Emacs initialization file.

Upon running M-xslime I got the following error:

Searching for program: No such file or directory, sbcl

so I changed inferior-lisp-program to "/usr/bin/sbcl" as such:

(setq inferior-lisp-program "/usr/bin/sbcl")

Now, when I run M-xslime I get:

Process inferior-lisp not running

and in ielm when I enter inferior-lisp-program I get

ELISP> inferior-lisp-program
"/usr/bin/sbcl"

So I am all out of ideas of what I might have gone wrong. This is a new install by me, and I have used Common Lisp and SBCL in the past with no hiccups. What did I screw up?

edit: It turns out I was getting this information in the **Inferior Lisp** buffer:

emacs: /usr/bin/sbcl: No such file or directory

Process inferior-lisp exited abnormally with code 127

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Does it help if you kill the *Inferior Lisp* buffer before you try to run slime again? – tripleee
I checked the output of the **Inferior Lisp** buffer and added that information to the post. I don't understand why it doesn't see /usr/bin/sbcl... I have launched it directly from that path with no issue on the command line. – doomghee
And you are sure that it's not mistyped anywhere (control characters anywhere?) and that Emacs is running on the same host? Maybe add some details to the question to prove that these issues are not there. – tripleee
Looks to me like there is no /usr/bin/sbcl program. I usually have mine installed in /usr/local/bin/sbcl – Rainer Joswig
I am not running linux, but are you sure you have sbcl as a executable in /usr/bin/? What does which sbcl gives you in a shell? Maybe sbcl is named sbcl-64-anything on yout plattform. – Martin Buchmann

1 Answers

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Turns out it is because I installed Emacs via Flatpak. Emacs installed via Ubuntu's default repository is able to use SBCL and other binaries.