Don Guinn wrote: > OK. I got the base library up to date and the Package Manager runs. I ran > into a little problem as it couldn't find the wget and 7z as they were > installed in c:\Program Files\ and it didn't seem to like the blank. I > moved > them to a directory which did not contain a blank but it still wouldn't > work > until I removed the double quotes I put around the file names at first > trying to fix the blank problem.
The docs say put wget in your path. This can be anywhere on your machine, and blanks are irrelevant. The 7z example is on the wiki at http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/System/Installation/Windows. This has a blank in the file name. Did you follow this example, and it still does not work? > Now it works and the repository got updated. I told it to install some > addons and it said that they were installed but I couldn't find them. One I > tried was fftw but there was no subdirectory math put into the addons > directory. I had downloaded fftw earlier but didn't put in into a math > subdirectory. Maybe it was my fault because I already had some things in > the > addons. Also, I had moved ~addons out of the J installed directory. I did > that to avoid multiple copies of the addons when I installed a new release > of J. > > So, must I keep the addons in the same directory as the J installation? Or > is it alright to keep it elsewhere? Second, Where do I go from here? Should > I delete all the addons I had previously gotten and then how do I tell > Package Manager to download the addons again? In theory, addons can be anywhere. But if you have already installed addons manually, it makes sense to delete them, and let PM do it for you. That way, you will not have two separate installations, which at least is confusing. > But the Package Manager looks really good. Might suggest that there be an > option to remove an addon (uninstall option). It probably wouldn't work > very > well for one to just delete the directory containing the addon. Somehow the > Package Manager needs to know it's gone. And what happens if an addon is > inadvertently deleted? Can the Package Manager detect that? You can delete them safely. The menu Tools|Rebuild all... will rebuild the catalogs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
