If you need to add things to your path, my highly biased opinion is it's best to do so temporarily and only for the relevant task at hand. Did you install that version of git for use with Julia, or some other purpose? Things tend to accumulate on the path and end up conflicting far later down the road.
On Tuesday, February 2, 2016 at 1:04:00 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote: > > Sorry, you asked me to do that earlier, and indeed you are right. It > seems that my lab's recent upgrade broke my personal installation of git. > > What do you encourage people to do instead of adding to their paths? > > Thanks for all of your help, Tony! > > On Tuesday, February 2, 2016 at 2:17:18 PM UTC-6, Tony Kelman wrote: >> >> Does your custom installation of git work if you run it outside of Julia? >> It may be missing some rpaths or LD_LIBRARY_PATH etc. Another data point in >> why I strongly discourage people from permanently adding things to their >> paths. >> >> >> On Tuesday, February 2, 2016 at 8:07:39 AM UTC-8, [email protected] >> wrote: >>> >>> That was the clue I was needing, thank you. I had installed git 2.3.3 >>> in my user directory and had that on my PATH, and so I wasn't getting the >>> system's installation. If I use the system's git, things work fine. >>> >>> Any thoughts on why it wasn't working with my installation of git 2.3.3? >>> >>> On Monday, February 1, 2016 at 6:09:17 PM UTC-6, Tony Kelman wrote: >>>> >>>> Where are you getting git from? Can you use git outside of Julia on >>>> this system? On Julia 0.4 we do not include git in the Linux binaries. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Monday, February 1, 2016 at 12:40:28 PM UTC-8, [email protected] >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hello, >>>>> >>>>> In the past, I've been able to download the generic linux binaries for >>>>> a release, copy them into my user directory on my organization's lab, and >>>>> try out Julia without bothering my sys admin. >>>>> >>>>> I just tried getting the v0.4.3 generic binaries, and I'm now getting >>>>> an error when I try to use the package manager. >>>>> >>>>> julia> Pkg.init() >>>>> git: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.6: cannot >>>>> open shared object file: No such file or directory >>>>> ERROR: failed process: Process(`git version`, ProcessExited(127)) [127 >>>>> ] >>>>> in pipeline_error at process.jl:555 >>>>> in readbytes at process.jl:515 >>>>> in version at pkg/git.jl:36 >>>>> in init at pkg/dir.jl:35 >>>>> in init at pkg.jl:19 >>>>> >>>>> The system does have libcrypto.so.10. Is this just a version issue >>>>> with this library? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks! >>>>> >>>>> Daniel >>>>> >>>>
