title: Installing Leiningen for Clojure on Linux Mint 12
body: <p>Im a clojure beginner.I did the following steps as given on <a href="http://www.unexpected-vortices.com/clojure/brief-beginners-guide/development-env.html">http://www.unexpected-vortices.com/clojure/brief-beginners-guide/development-env.html</a> to setup Leiningen on my machine running Linux Mint 12.</p>
  
  <pre><code>cd ~/bin
  wget https://raw.github.com/technomancy/leiningen/stable/bin/lein
  chmod +x lein
  lein self-install
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But now when i run the following command :</p>
  
  <pre><code>lein new foobar
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I get </p>
  
  <pre><code>The program 'lein' is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing:
  sudo apt-get install leiningen
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I see a file leiningen-1.7.1-standalone.jar in ~/.lein/self-installs. Why am i being asked to install lein again using package manager even though i used the self-install method ?</p>
  
  <p>Please Help
  Thank You</p>