Can't get SLIME to work with SBCL

[olwe]

Yeah, that's it in a nutshell, on my new U10.04 it errors out thusly:

SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.
It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under
BSD-style licenses. See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the
distribution for more information.
*
; loading #P"/usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp"

debugger invoked on a SB-C::INPUT-ERROR-IN-COMPILE-FILE in thread #<THREAD
"initial thread" RUNNING
{A9F28C9}>:
READ failure in COMPILE-FILE:
SB-INT:SIMPLE-READER-PACKAGE-ERROR at 5151 (line 128, column 45) on #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM
for "file /usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp"
{A9FC3D1}>:
package "CLC" not found

Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:QUIT) to exit from SBCL.

restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):
0: [ABORT] Exit debugger, returning to top level.

(SB-C::READ-FOR-COMPILE-FILE
#<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM
for "file /usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp" {A9FC3D1}>
4663)
0]

Somebody from Slime-land says I might need a sbcl.rc with lots of asdf stuff in it. The Ubuntu(debian) sbcl (1.0.29) doesn't create any asdf lines, though.

[fbkarsdorp]

can you post your slime-setup in your .emacs file?

[olwe]

Somebody on the slime list said there's a bug in the debian/ubuntu slime package, so I uninstalled it. I set up sbcl and slime by hand straight from their downloads, so my .emacs is for hand installs. Works. But my system tried to find slime in /usr/share/common-lisp/sources/slime where apt-get originally put it. I had to put a symbolic link to my hand-installed slime to get it to work finally. Any idea why/where the system knows about an uninstalled slime?

[eric3_14159]

It seems to be tied up with CLC, the Common Lisp Controller, which uses /usr/share/common-lisp or /usr/lib/common-lisp. I've been having trouble with it recently. It looks like the common lisp controller is a package which tries to handle package managing for all of the Lisps on the system.