Could there be an option added to pacman to look at the addon library and other J libraries and make sure that the pacman install list is in sync with the libraries. Also, how about a button to uninstall an addon?
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Mike Day <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
