Yes, my LOAD_PATH gives very similar results. Following some other threads
the commands (within Julia run as root):
ENV["JULIA_PKGDIR"] = "/opt/julia/usr/share/julia/site/v0.3"
Pkg.init()
followed by a few Pkg.add's, did the trick. However, Pkg.installed() (as a
user, not root) shows nothing, because the packages aren't in the user
directory. As a user, I have to set JULIA_PKGDIR as for root, for the
packages to show up.
This is all good - thank you very much!
-Alasdair
On Monday, January 6, 2014 6:49:08 AM UTC+11, Stefan Karpinski wrote:
>
> I think that's not really what's being asked for here. Julia looks in
> JULIA_PKGDIR, which defaults to ~/.julia, but it also looks in the paths in
> the LOAD_PATH global variable, which on my system defaults to this:
>
> julia> LOAD_PATH
> 2-element Array{Union(UTF8String,ASCIIString),1}:
> "/Users/stefan/projects/julia/usr/local/share/julia/site/v0.3"
> "/Users/stefan/projects/julia/usr/share/julia/site/v0.3"
>
>
> If you have a system-installed julia, it should have system directories in
> LOAD_PATH by default. Thus, you can clone package repos there and they will
> be found when loading packages. However, the package manager will not do
> this for you – unless you set JULIA_PKGDIR to one of those directories. So
> you may want to run julia as root and temporarily set the JULIA_PKGDIR
> environment variable to one of the default LOAD_PATH entries to use Pkg to
> install system-wide packages. After that, those packages will be visible
> but the package manager will consider them to be pre-installed.
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Elliot Saba <[email protected]<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> JULIA_PKGDIR is what you are looking for.
>> On Jan 5, 2014 8:35 AM, "John Myles White"
>> <[email protected]<javascript:>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I believe there is a Julia environment variable that lets you control
>>> where packages will be located, but I can’t seem to recall what it is. If
>>> you knew that variable, you could have every user specify in the .juliarc
>>> that packages should be loaded from this alternative location.
>>>
>>> — John
>>>
>>> On Jan 5, 2014, at 6:46 AM, Alasdair McAndrew
>>> <[email protected]<javascript:>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > I can install packages as myself; that's fine. I'm just wondering if
>>> they can be installed centrally, so as to be available to all users.
>>>
>>>
>
