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.
>>>
>>
>>

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