FWIW, I had an experience similar to William Szuch's.
I had successfully loaded the win32 version under Vista
with both jhs and jgtk working ok - but I was trying to
solve my own problems with the user folder not being
where I wanted it, and decided to reinstall j701. I didn't
want to lose all the addons as it's time-consuming to
download them, so I deleted the contents of most J
folders (bin, system, etc), but not those under addons.
After reinstalling J701, I encountered the same
behaviour as reported by William Szuch, ie an invitation
to
"install 'gtkide' "
which I did. This resulted in a lengthy sequence of
download and expansion messages.
I then complied with the request to
"load 'gtkide' "
which did not succeed.
I tried another "install 'gtkide' " which I think yielded
the message that it was already installed.
After a bit of thought, I deleted only those folders under
addons which appeared to have contents related to gtk.
I also deleted gtk stuff elsewhere under j701, ie under
"install". This time, "install 'gtkide' " followed by
"load 'gtkide' " was successful. I think I might have needed
to reload one or two addons using pacman, but
certainly not all.
I dont recall any difficulty with readonly files or folders.
This is roughly what happened. I'm afraid I didn't
exactly record everything that occurred as I was just
trying to deal with my own problems at the time.
It looks as if a facility to uninstall all or part of J would
be useful. Easier said than done!
Mike
On 10/01/2011 04:35, Fraser Jackson wrote:
> After the user install failed, I tried to delete a previous installation in
> the user directory. It would not let me remove the folders to the recycle
> bin. I am not sure what caused this.
>
> I think Bill's suggestion of not being able to write to ~addons is correct
> because none of the output folloing the install 'gtkide' appeared in the
> console, nor any messages.
>
> I have since erased the folders and a clean user install into new
> directories worked OK
>
> Fraser
>
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