So, to explain this a little, IJulia.jl depends on ZMQ.jl for interprocess
communication. ZMQ.jl is a Julia wrapper around the C++ libzmq library, so
the Julia package needs to download an architecture-specific compiled
version of the library (or use a pre-existing installed copy from a package
manager, or build from source) before it can work. Homebrew.jl is a Julia
wrapper around the homebrew package manager which we use for binary package
installation on Macs, and WinRPM.jl is an RPM-metadata parser that
downloads cross-compiled Window binaries from the OpenSUSE build service.
If you're on a Windows machine, you should never need to use Homebrew.jl,
anywhere that is mentioned in the REQUIRE file should be preceded with the
@osx modifier which denotes that it only applies on OS X. On Windows, the
zmq library will come from WinRPM.jl. What happens if you just run `using
WinRPM` from a freshly-started Julia REPL?
WinRPM itself will need internet access - it doesn't use the same mechanism
as Pkg does to download binaries, but it could easily run afoul of a
paranoid proxy. Let's see.
On Wednesday, June 17, 2015 at 11:31:35 AM UTC-7, Yonatan Tekleab wrote:
>
> I think I'm moving in the right direction. I downloaded several packages
> that IJulia depends on and put them in the ~/.julia/v0.3 directory along
> with the IJulia package itself. Before I was just sticking them in the
> ~/.julia directory, and I don't think Julia was seeing the packages.
>
> When trying `using IJulia`, I get "ERROR: ZMQ not properly installed.
> Please run Pkg.build("ZMQ"). When I run that command, it tries to build
> Homebrew, WinRPM, and ZMQ, all of which have their own errors.
> Homebrew: "could not spawn setenv(`git rev-parse --git-dir`;
> dir="P:\\.julia\\v0.3\\Homebrew\\deps\\usr"): no such file or directory
> (ENOENT)"
> WinRPM: "update not defined"
> ZMQ: "RPM not defined"
>
> When I try `Pkg.build("IJulia")`, it trys to build Homebrew, WinRPM,
> Nettle, ZMQ, and IJulia. I get errors for all except IJulia. The
> Homebrew, WinRPM and ZMQ errors are the same. For Nettle, I get: "RPM not
> defined"
>
> Now I can open an IJulia instance, but the kernel dies shortly after it
> comes up. The command window states "ERROR: ZMQ not properly installed.
> Please run Pkg.build("ZMQ")". Then it attempts to restart the kernel and
> repeats the process.
>
>
> On Wednesday, June 17, 2015 at 12:31:22 AM UTC-4, Tony Kelman wrote:
>>
>> Can you do `using IJulia`, and/or `Pkg.build("IJulia")` ? Note also that
>> IJulia depends on several other packages, indicated in the REQUIRE file
>> (and those packages may have other dependencies of their own).
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, June 16, 2015 at 3:40:14 PM UTC-7, Yonatan Tekleab wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Stefan,
>>>
>>> I'm having the same problem. Unfortunately the firewall I'm behind is
>>> clever enough prevent me from re-configuring git to use https, as many
>>> other threads have indicated.
>>>
>>> I downloaded the master branch IJulia package from
>>> https://github.com/JuliaLang/IJulia.jl, extracted the folder, placed it
>>> inside the ~/.julia folder, then removed the ".jl-master" suffix. This
>>> still isn't working for me. When I try to open IJulia from the command
>>> prompt ("ipython notebook --profile julia"), it pulls up the typical
>>> IPython notebook.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> On Thursday, October 31, 2013 at 10:16:06 AM UTC-4, Stefan Karpinski
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> If you just make sure that the package source exists in ~/.julia, that
>>>> should do the trick. In fact, you don't need to mess around with the
>>>> package manager at all – Pkg commands will fail but loading packages
>>>> should
>>>> work fine. Unfortunately, building packages with binary dependencies will
>>>> likely fail, but if you stick with pure-Julia packages, you should be ok.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Able Mashamba <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear Informed,
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a way to manually install julia packages on a Windows system
>>>>> that has a proxy.pac config system with a paranoid firewall. I have
>>>>> downloaded the packages I need and would want to install them manually as
>>>>> it appears Internet permission settings at my institution are making all
>>>>> Pkg.*() commands fail.
>>>>>
>>>>> _
>>>>> _ _ _(_)_ | A fresh approach to technical computing
>>>>> (_) | (_) (_) | Documentation: http://docs.julialang.org
>>>>> _ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "help()" to list help topics
>>>>> | | | | | | |/ _` | |
>>>>> | | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 0.2.0-rc2
>>>>> _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_| | Commit b372a68 2013-10-26 02:06:56 UTC
>>>>> |__/ | i686-w64-mingw32
>>>>>
>>>>> julia> Pkg.add("Distributions")
>>>>> INFO: Initializing package repository C:\Users\amashamba\.julia
>>>>> INFO: Cloning METADATA from git://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl
>>>>> fatal: unable to connect to github.com:
>>>>> github.com[0: 192.30.252.130]: errno=No error
>>>>>
>>>>> ERROR: failed process: Process(`git clone -q -b metadata-v2 git://
>>>>> github.com/Jul
>>>>> iaLang/METADATA.jl METADATA`, ProcessExited(128)) [128]
>>>>>
>>>>> julia>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
