On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Stefano Capomaccio <capemas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > In an Ubuntu system, 14.04, I have the following error launching parallel > after completing with success the installing procedure: > > $ parallel > parallel: Error: -g has been retired. Use --group. > parallel: Error: -B has been retired. Use --bf. > parallel: Error: -T has been retired. Use --tty. > parallel: Error: -U has been retired. Use --er. > parallel: Error: -W has been retired. Use --wd. > parallel: Error: -Y has been retired. Use --shebang. > parallel: Error: -H has been retired. Use --halt. > parallel: Error: --tollef has been retired. Use -u -q --arg-sep -- and > --load for -l. > > I have no idea on how to resolve this. In another machine with the same OS I > had no issues. > This error occur with the lastest version of parallel as well as other older > version that I tried to workaround the problem.
You have been hit by https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/parallel/+bug/1198096 So what is likely to have happened is the following: * You have installed an earlier version of GNU Parallel as an Ubuntu package * This creates the file /etc/parallel/config and put --tollef into that * You later upgrade to a newer version of GNU Parallel - which no longer supports --tollef (see: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/parallel/2013-02/msg00018.html) * but the upgrade does not remove /etc/parallel/config So most likely you just need to: * rm /etc/parallel/config * complain to your package maintainer /Ole
