The simplest thing is to perhaps just nuke ~/.julia and install the
packages again. This is rarely required nowadays, but sometimes it is
simpler to do just that.
-viral
On Monday, August 25, 2014 8:38:47 PM UTC+5:30, Henry Smith wrote:
>
> Many thanks for the replies! A big help...
> I did the rm thing and also did a Pkg.rm("Stats") so it no longer appears
> at all in a status request.
> Now however when I do a Pkg.update I also get an error which I have not
> succeeded in figuring it out.
> Below is what I get when I request a Pkg.update() - Do I need to
> completely re-install the pkgs I have or some such? I would think not
> but... And what does it mean by "Terminal's requirements..." (I did this
> from the Mac Terminal program - the default on OSX, it seems...)
>
> TIA again
>
> Henry
>
>
> julia> Pkg.update()
> INFO: Updating METADATA...
> INFO: Computing changes...
> ERROR: Terminals's requirements can't be satisfied because of the following
> fixed packages: julia
> in error at error.jl:22
> in resolve at
> /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib
> in update at
> /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib
> in anonymous at pkg/dir.jl:28
> in cd at
> /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib
> in __cd#227__ at
> /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib
> in update at
> /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib
> (repeats 2 times)
>
> julia>
>
>
> On Friday, August 22, 2014 4:52:16 PM UTC-4, Henry Smith wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just d/led it and tried it out. I had a couple of old versions of 0.2.x
>> (and still have 0.2.1 installed but trashed the others - some rc's). The
>> computer is an iMac with 20 GB of RAM, 2.7 GHz quad i5.
>>
>> When I asked about the Pkg.status(), it came up with an error and similar
>> for PKG.installed() and Pkg.update(). I copy the output below (not too big,
>> I hope) I can't figure out what if anything I did "wrong" and did not find
>> anything about problems on the Mac -- TIA for any help
>>
>> Henry
>>
>> Last login: Fri Aug 22 16:07:45 on ttys009
>> iMac-162:~ hs$ exec
>> '/Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/bin/julia'
>> _
>> _ _ _(_)_ | A fresh approach to technical computing
>> (_) | (_) (_) | Documentation: http://docs.julialang.org
>> _ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "help()" for help.
>> | | | | | | |/ _` | |
>> | | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 0.3.0 (2014-08-20 20:43 UTC)
>> _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_| | Official http://julialang.org/ release
>> |__/ | x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0
>>
>> julia> help()
>>
>> Welcome to Julia. The full manual is available at
>>
>> http://docs.julialang.org
>>
>> To get help, try help(function), help("@macro"), or help("variable").
>> To search all help text, try apropos("string").
>>
>> julia> Pkg.status()
>> ERROR: failed process: Process(`git
>> --git-dir=/Users/hs/.julia/.cache/Stats merge-base
>> 87d1c8d890962dfcfd0b45b82907464787ac7c64
>> 8208e29af9f80ef633e50884ffb17cb25a9f5113`, ProcessExited(1)) [1]
>> in readbytes at
>> /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib
>> in readchomp at pkg/git.jl:24
>> in installed_version at
>> /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib
>> in installed at
>> /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib
>> in status at pkg/entry.jl:107
>> in anonymous at pkg/dir.jl:28
>> in cd at
>> /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib
>> in cd at pkg/dir.jl:28
>> in status at pkg.jl:28 (repeats 2 times)
>>
>> julia> Pkg.installed()
>> ERROR: failed process: Process(`git
>> --git-dir=/Users/hs/.julia/.cache/Stats merge-base
>> 87d1c8d890962dfcfd0b45b82907464787ac7c64
>> 8208e29af9f80ef633e50884ffb17cb25a9f5113`, ProcessExited(1)) [1]
>> in readbytes at
>> /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib
>> in readchomp at pkg/git.jl:24
>> in installed_version at
>> /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib
>> in installed at
>> /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib
>> (repeats 3 times)
>> in anonymous at pkg/dir.jl:28
>> in cd at
>> /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib
>> in cd at pkg/dir.jl:28
>> in installed at pkg.jl:25
>>
>> julia> Pkg.add("Distributions")
>> INFO: Nothing to be done
>> INFO: METADATA is out-of-date — you may not have the latest version of
>> Distributions
>> INFO: Use `Pkg.update()` to get the latest versions of your packages
>>
>> julia>
>>
>> julia> Pkg.update()
>> INFO: Updating METADATA...
>> INFO: Updating cache of IniFile...
>> INFO: Updating cache of Cairo...
>> INFO: Updating cache of PyPlot...
>> INFO: Updating cache of Debug...
>> INFO: Updating cache of Calculus...
>> INFO: Updating cache of Units...
>> INFO: Updating cache of HDF5...
>> INFO: Updating cache of ICU...
>> INFO: Updating cache of Homebrew...
>> INFO: Updating cache of BinDeps...
>> INFO: Updating cache of Compose...
>> INFO: Updating cache of Color...
>> INFO: Updating cache of TimeSeries...
>> INFO: Updating cache of Gadfly...
>> ERROR: failed process: Process(`git
>> --git-dir=/Users/hs/.julia/.cache/Stats merge-base
>> 87d1c8d890962dfcfd0b45b82907464787ac7c64
>> 8208e29af9f80ef633e50884ffb17cb25a9f5113`, ProcessExited(1)) [1]
>> in readbytes at
>> /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib
>> in readchomp at pkg/git.jl:24
>> in installed_version at
>> /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib
>> in installed at
>> /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib
>> in update at
>> /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib
>> in anonymous at pkg/dir.jl:28
>> in cd at
>> /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib
>> in __cd#227__ at
>> /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib
>> in update at
>> /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib
>> (repeats 2 times)
>>
>> julia>
>>
>>
