Installing Clozure CL and QuickLisp on CentOS 7

Download Clozure CL

Open up terminal and enter the command: svn co http://svn.clozure.com/publicsvn/openmcl/release/1.11/linuxx86/ccl Where linuxx86 is one of:

darwinx86
linuxx86
freebsdx86
solarisx86
windows
linuxarm

Download and Install QuickLisp

Download QuickLisp from https://beta.quicklisp.org/quicklisp.lisp

Enter the command: ./ccl/lx86cl64 --load /path/to/quicklisp.lisp

In the CCL prompt enter: (quicklisp-quickstart:install)(ql:add-to-init-file)

Creating Scripts to Run CCL

Edit ./ccl/scripts/ccl and ./ccl/scripts/ccl64 to change CCL_DEFAULT_DIRECTORY=/usr/local/src/ccl line to CCL_DEFAULT_DIRECTORY=~/ccl

Copy the scripts to /usr/local/bin directory: sudo cp ./ccl/scripts/ccl* /usr/local/bin/

References

Linux Format Article
Clozure CL Official Download Page