Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I had some (possibly corrupt) junk from earlier installations. I cleaned out everything and reinstalled Julia 0.4.5. Everything is working fine now. GtkIDE looks real neat.
Larry On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 8:38 AM, Andreas Lobinger <lobing...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello colleague, > > On Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 2:34:28 PM UTC+2, lawrence dworsky wrote: >> >> I don't seem to be able to get any of this to work. Both Pkg.add entries >> return >> >> >> fatal: your current branch 'master' does not have any commits yet >> ... >> ... >> in add at pkg.jl:23 >> >> >> I have no idea what this means. My installation of Julia is brand new so >> I don't think it's messed up. >> > > As the installation is brandnew, maybe something was not fully installed... > a) what is the output of Pkg.status()? > b) do other Pkg.add("Pkgname") work? >