Getting a Scala interpreter to work

Question

I\'m very new to Scala. I have downloaded it, got it working in Eclipse where I\'ll be developing it; but I can\'t make it work in Terminal.

All sites and books say

Answer 1

Scala recommends using Homebrew to install the Typesafe stack for Scala 2.9.2.

brew install scala sbt maven giter8

Homebrew will install soft links in /usr/local/bin for sbt, scala, scalac, scaladoc, scalap, fsc and g8. Follow the soft links to its final referent in order to determine where $SCALA_HOME needs to be. $SCALA_HOME should contain bin/scala and lib/scala-compiler.jar.

Typesafe recommends using sbt console instead of scala to get the interpreter going, because sbt will also manage library dependencies to libraries such as Akka. That said, if you want to use scala, scalac, fsc, scalac and scaladoc directly, you may need to run a chmod +x on the referents of the soft links.