Sorry for the tone, screaming loudly here despite sore throat, because --- I was very happy when Debian Jessie became the stable distribution, because I could then simply install julia. I particularly want to use the Sundials and PyPlot packages, for preference running most of it in the IJulia notebook interface.
--- This worked fine on my laptop (don't have it here, it's an oldish low-spec Lenovo) --- So put Jessie on my desktop, installed julia. No problem. Installed IJulia, no problem (though I don't like the inelegant shutting down, have to kill ipython separately, it's the same on the laptop). --- BUT I can't install Sundials. I get (skipping a lot of messages that all seem to indicate the process is going fine) """ ... ---------------------------------- Finished SUNDIALS Configure Script ---------------------------------- INFO: Changing Directory to /home/henri/.julia/v0.3/Sundials/deps/src/sundials-2.5.0 ==============================[ ERROR: Sundials ]=============================== could not spawn `make install`: no such file or directory (ENOENT) while loading /home/henri/.julia/v0.3/Sundials/deps/build.jl, in expression starting on line 37 ... """ and skipping a short summary in the tail. I can't work out where the problem might be. Thought it might be that I didn't have fortran or other compilers, so by overkill I installed everything I could find in my Jessie distribution, deleted julia with Pkg.rm and also by removing all of .julia in my home directory. Didn't help. BTW this fixed PyPlot which at first would build and give no error when running "using PyPlot" but then would say in response to a "plot" command that pltm could not be found.
