yea, i figured the same thing since I am on the same system using https through my browser, but for some reason that I don't understand, Julia won't add/update packages, even when git is configured to use https
On Wednesday, June 17, 2015 at 3:04:26 PM UTC-4, Isaiah wrote: > > Are you using the gmail web interface from this same system? If so, then > https:// should, in principle, be available and work for git too... > > On the other hand, if you are using a separate (windows) system for gmail, > then you ought to be able to run Pkg.install/build on the second system, > get all requirements you need, and then copy your > "C:/Users/USERNAME/.julia/v0.#" directory onto the firewalled system. This > is tricky/unreliable on linux, but should be quite simple on windows as > long as both systems are same word size -- both 32-bit or 64-bit (because > of Microsoft's ABI permanence). > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Yonatan Tekleab <[email protected] > <javascript:>> 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> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >
