Yes, that should work as well. -E On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Peter Simon <[email protected]> wrote:
> If the user has a large number of packages installed on the old system, > how about doing a Pkg.init(), followed by copying over only the REQUIRE > file from ~/.julia/v0.x/ and then doing a Pkg.update()? This could save > some typing. > > --Peter > > On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 9:25:54 AM UTC-7, Elliot Saba wrote: >> >> Hello K Leo, >> >> First off, because many packages use binary dependencies, you shouldn't >> copy packages from one computer to the other like that; although in >> principle it shouldn't break anything, you will have a bunch of extra files >> laying around that your computer doesn't know what to do with, and I like >> to keep the number of potentially confounding issues to a minimum. The >> recommended way to do this is to just `Pkg.add()` all the packages you need >> over on your OSX machine. >> >> Could you remove your `~/.julia` directory, try again, and post any >> output to a gist showing the errors you're seeing? >> -E >> >> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 1:16 AM, Andreas Lobinger <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I'm not sure, but there seems to be some issues with homebrew on OSX >>> which is the basis to use libraries like cairo, pango etc. So it could be >>> the copy of the julia part of the package is correct, while the libraries >>> the package tries to call isn't. Check both Cairo.jl and Homebrew.jl issues. >>> >> >>
