Great, good to hear that. Sorry for the trouble and thanks for your
patience and sticking with it. We hope to streamline a lot of these
installation hiccups over time.
On Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 6:58:00 AM UTC-4, Joe Tusek wrote:
>
> Tony,
>
> Problem solved. I was able to get things working by using your last
> suggestion "deleting the .julia directory then running Pkg.init() again in
> Julia". Juno then installed a bunch of packages when I ran it and connected
> to Julia and was able to evaluate the example script from within Juno.
> Thanks for your assistance.
>
> On Wednesday, June 24, 2015 at 9:29:04 PM UTC+10, Joe Tusek wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have had a read on the forum and tried to google my way out of the
>> problem but can't seem to find what I need to get me going with Julia and
>> Juno. Julia looks very promising (being a Matab user) but at present I
>> can't get past square one. Some things I notice (On W7 machine)
>> 1) I can't widen the Julia window by dragging it wider with the mouse. I
>> can make it taller using the mouse to drag it but can't widen it. I can
>> widen it manually through the Properties/Defaults menu options though
>> and once widened this way the window can then be made smaller by
>> dragging with the mouse and made wider up to that menu width specified but
>> no wider, just seems like a bug?
>>
>> 2)I can't cut and paste text from the Julia screen as anticipated, I have
>> to highlight it all using the menu item (select all) or if I set the editor
>> mode to QuickEdit mode then I can highlight a rectangle but it does not
>> follow the natural extent of text so again not that good. Makes it
>> difficult to cut and past error messages or any other multiline
>> non-rectangular text output. It would be beneficial to highlight (and then
>> cut and paste) any element of text on the screen either in window mode
>> or line mode.
>>
>> 3) I have tried all that I can understand by way of suggestions to get
>> Juno to work with Julia. I have put code in the same User directories, I
>> have uninstalled and reinstalled etc. Unfortunately Juno won't work in for
>> me with Julia and Pkg.add("Jewel") won't work either.
>>
>> For Juno I get the following error when it starts,
>> ERROR: unable to read directory METADATA: No error
>> in systemerror at error.jl:39 (repeats 2 times)
>> while loading
>> c:\Users\Joe.Tusek\AppData\Local\Julia-0.3.9\juno-windows-x64\windows64\resources\app\plugins\Julia-LT\jl\init.jl,
>>
>> in expression starting on line 24
>>
>> For Julia I get
>> julia> Pkg.add("Jewel")
>> ERROR: could not spawn setenv(`git rev-parse --git-dir`;
>> dir="C:\\Users\\Joe.Tusek\\.julia\\v0.3\\METADATA"): no such file or
>> directory (ENOENT)
>> in _jl_spawn at process.jl:217 (repeats 2 times)
>>
>> So overall, I don't really have an idea now how to get Juno working with
>> Julia and don't know why Julia won't run the Pkg.add("Jewel") command.
>>
>> If someone can guide me through this I would be grateful.
>>
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