Docker is actually pretty lightweight (compared to VMs). I'm personally looking forward to the day that Docker based desktop OSes become available (something like Snappy Ubuntu Core but not only for cloud & embedded but also for desktop). That solves "dependency hell" once and for all.
On Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 2:51:35 PM UTC+2, Tony Kelman wrote: > > Docker's extremely useful for some things, but also overkill here. It > sounds like Yudong (hi BTW, didn't know you used R at all) found a > perfectly good solution to the problem in the duplicated thread (probably > wasn't showing up immediately if the thread needed moderator approval) at > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-users/rK6gSIM822w - upgrade > R to a version that is compatible with the same pcre version as Julia. > Wasn't really a problem with Julia so much as a problem with R not having > upper-bound constraints on its pcre version requirement. > > -Tony > > > On Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 12:40:50 AM UTC-7, Steven Sagaert wrote: >> >> Besides using the R distrib from revolutionanalytics.com (which is based >> on intel MKL) you could also completely isolate R & julia & their >> dependencies by running them in separate Docker containers. >> >> On Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 1:37:52 AM UTC+2, Yudong Ma wrote: >>> >>> Hi. >>> I am pretty new to Julia, and I did manage to install Julia on Ubuntu >>> precise 64. >>> Everything works except that the installation of Julia updates some >>> libraries and these updates makes the R shared lib /usr/lib/libR.so >>> complain that the symbol _pcre_valid_utf8 is undefined. >>> >>> The libraries updated by Julia that affect R are libpcre3, libpcrecpp0, >>> libpcre3-dev. >>> >>> I am wondering have any of julia users have encounted this issue, and >>> how should I resolve this issue? >>> Best Regards >>> >>>
