Thanks for Bill's comments just received but not copied here. However, I should have made clear that after my deletions and reinstall of gtkide described below, everything seems to be working ok, including both JHS & JGTK, so whatever I did seems to have been successful, and might be of use to others.
M On 10/01/2011 10:28, Mike Day wrote: > 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 >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
