Hi, can you show exactly how to change prepare-julia-env.bat to have JULIA_PKGDIR and other ENV variables preset when Julia loads, adding an empty line and then set JULIA_PKGDIR=C:\julia_pkg does not work for me.
Thanks, FS On Friday, 8 November 2013 00:00:28 UTC+1, Dave Ramsey wrote: > > Hi, thanks for the reply. That appeared to work. For others that will > read this post you need to modify the file prepare-julia-env.bat and add > the line (for example) > set JULIA_PKGDIR=c:\users\xxx\juliapackages > > or something similar. Out of the box Julia v0.2 rc2 was creating the > .julia folder on one of my network drives H:\.julia and there were some > permission problems associated with package installation. Setting the > package directory to a local drive solved the problem. Why Julia was > going to a network drive in the first place a mystery. As my previous > post mentioned the v0.2prerelease version did not do this. > > Thanks again for your help > cheers > Dave > > > On Thursday, November 7, 2013 6:33:23 PM UTC+11, Elliot Saba wrote: >> >> Hello there! You can set the JULIA_PKGDIR environment variable to a >> different directory, and that will change where the packages are stored. >> (It will not create a .julia directory inside of whatever JULIA_PKGDIR >> points to, so for instance you set JULIA_PKGDIR equal to >> "C:\Users\MyUsername\JuliaPackages" and it would store the packages >> directory inside that folder). >> >> Could you post the error that it is encountering? Permissions likely >> should not be an issue on your local disk, as we take pains to choose >> default locations you should have write access to. >> -E >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Dave Ramsey <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, Newbie question here. I am using Julia v0.2-rc2 on a 32 bit >>> Windows 7 machine. I wish to change the default location of my installed >>> packages (i.e. the location of my .julia folder). There doesn't appear to >>> be anything relevant in the package documentation or the list that I can >>> find? Since upgrading from 0.2prerelease I can no longer install packages >>> and was wondering if the new default package location is the cause (I'm >>> behind a work network). >>> >>> thanks for you help >>> Dave >>> >>> >>> >>> >>
