and I just tried it with the 3.6-3 release version I got from [link|http://www-sor.inria.fr/~piumarta/squeak/|Ian's site] - which incidentally sports the Squeak-3.6-5429.image which fixes your problem.

As one might expect with a resource project thing like this, Squeak goes through periods of instability. Going from PackageLoader 1.0 to 2.0 occurred at the same time that the Monticello version control package was adopted and things just after 3.6 final got a little shaky in spots. Many people are now onto 3.7 beta.

PackageLoader is indeed a lot like CPAN and there is a move on to shrink the thing to a minimal bootstrap image that can expand itself over a network connection and unload stuff again later (this is likely to be a confluence of the package loader, the squat project, monticello, and some other to-be invented technology).

Once you get all the package installed that you want, I urge you to save a copy of that image to use as a starter for future projects.

Its a bit like trying to get a couple of the opensource web app frameworks configured (I'm playing with Tapestry/Cayenne at the moment). It takes a bit of fiddling to get all the lib versions to line up.

Edit - added link to Ian's site.

its brand new and still sort of experimental.