Strange. That commit is present in the repository: see https://github.com/timholy/HDF5.jl/commits/master Anyone else having the same problem?
I just did this and it went off without a hitch (julia-old is my installation of the 0.3 release): $ mkdir /tmp/packages $ JULIA_PKGDIR=/tmp/packages julia-old _ _ _ _(_)_ | A fresh approach to technical computing (_) | (_) (_) | Documentation: http://docs.julialang.org _ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "help()" for help. | | | | | | |/ _` | | | | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 0.3.7-pre+1 (2015-02-17 22:12 UTC) _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_| | Commit d15f183* (153 days old release-0.3) |__/ | x86_64-linux-gnu julia> Pkg.init() INFO: Initializing package repository /tmp/packages/v0.3 INFO: Cloning METADATA from git://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl julia> Pkg.add("HDF5") INFO: Cloning cache of BinDeps from git://github.com/JuliaLang/BinDeps.jl.git INFO: Cloning cache of Blosc from git://github.com/stevengj/Blosc.jl.git INFO: Cloning cache of Compat from git://github.com/JuliaLang/Compat.jl.git INFO: Cloning cache of HDF5 from git://github.com/timholy/HDF5.jl.git INFO: Cloning cache of SHA from git://github.com/staticfloat/SHA.jl.git INFO: Cloning cache of URIParser from git://github.com/JuliaWeb/URIParser.jl.git INFO: Installing BinDeps v0.3.14 INFO: Installing Blosc v0.1.2 INFO: Installing Compat v0.4.9 INFO: Installing HDF5 v0.5.0 INFO: Installing SHA v0.0.4 INFO: Installing URIParser v0.0.5 INFO: Building Blosc % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 121 0 121 0 0 553 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 555 0 0 0 233k 0 0 221k 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 427k Compiling libblosc... CC blosc.c CC blosclz.c CC shuffle.c LINK libblosc INFO: Building HDF5 INFO: Package database updated julia> which went like a charm. Maybe try Pkg.update()? --Tim On Monday, July 20, 2015 10:36:25 PM Roger Herikstad wrote: > Hi, > For some reason I am unable to add HDF5. Not sure if this is related to > the recent change splitting JLD off into its own package. This is the error > I got > > ulia> Pkg.add("HDF5") > INFO: Updating cache of HDF5... > ERROR: Missing package versions (possible metadata misconfiguration): HDF5 > v(nothing,v"0.5.0") [883165af1cef09980a3d9b1718477579d629754c[1:10]] > > in wait at > /home/roger/Applications/Julia-0.3.10.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia > /sys.dylib (repeats 2 times) > in wait at task.jl:48 > in sync_end at > /home/roger/Applications/Julia-0.3.10.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia > /sys.dylib in add at pkg/entry.jl:319 > in add at pkg/entry.jl:71 > in anonymous at pkg/dir.jl:28 > in cd at > /home/roger/Applications/Julia-0.3.10.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia > /sys.dylib in __cd#229__ at > /home/roger/Applications/Julia-0.3.10.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia > /sys.dylib in add at pkg.jl:20 > > This is my versioninfo: > > julia> versioninfo() > Julia Version 0.3.10 > Commit c8ceeef* (2015-06-24 13:54 UTC) > Platform Info: > System: Darwin (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0) > CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5472 @ 3.00GHz > WORD_SIZE: 64 > BLAS: libopenblas (USE64BITINT DYNAMIC_ARCH NO_AFFINITY Penryn) > LAPACK: libopenblas > LIBM: libopenlibm > LLVM: libLLVM-3.3 > > I appreciate any advice on what the problem might be. Thanks!