Oh, my mistake: I thought jpkg was an executable for managing J packages. Why use the jpkg verb when the install verb does the same thing?
Cheers, Andrew Pennebaker www.yellosoft.us On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Kip Murray <k...@math.uh.edu> wrote: > I'm coming in late, so may be missing what Andrew's question is. There > is no binary for jpkg -- it is a verb defined in the script > > ~system/util/pacman.ijs > > On my Windows 7 32-bit system that translates to > > c:/users/kip murray/j701/system/util/pacman.ijs > > Below are the verb jpkg and its cover jpkg_z_ , copied from the above > script. More important than the verbs themselves may be the question, > how did I find them? The answer is, I knew from examples in > > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/JAL/Package%20Manager/jpkg/ > > that the first step for using jpkg in the J console is to do > > load 'pacman' > > That told me to look in noun Public_j_ (just type its name) to see the > file name for pacman (which I give above). (I can never remember the > spelling of Public_j_ so I used names_j_'' to find the spelling.) Then > look through script pacman.ijs to find the two verbs. For what it's > worth here are the two verbs. > > jpkg=: 4 : 0 > select. x > case. 'history';'manifest' do. > x showfiles_console y > case. 'install' do. > install_console y > case. 'reinstall' do. > remove_console y > install_console y > case. 'remove' do. > remove_console y > case. ;:'show search showinstalled shownotinstalled showupgrade > status' do. > x show_console y > case. 'update' do. > updatejal '' > case. 'upgrade' do. > upgrade_console y > case. do. > msg=. 'Valid options are:',LF > msg=. msg,' history, install, manifest, remove, reinstall, show, > search,',LF > msg=. msg,' showinstalled, shownotinstalled, showupgrade, status,',LF > msg,' update, upgrade' > end. > ) > jpkg_z_=: 3 : 0 > 'help' jpkg y > : > a=. conew 'jpacman' > res=. x jpkg__a y > destroy__a'' > res > ) > > > On 11/6/2011 4:43 PM, Björn Helgason wrote: > > While the package manager is active you will find the jpkg verb active in > > the z locale > > > > 2011/11/6 Andrew Pennebaker<andrew.penneba...@gmail.com> > > > >> jpgk may be installed by default, but the binary isn't added to PATH, > and I > >> can't find where the jpkg binary is, in any case. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> Andrew Pennebaker > >> www.yellosoft.us > >> > >> On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Ric Sherlock<tikk...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Ric Sherlock<tikk...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>>> On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Andrew Pennebaker > >>>> <andrew.penneba...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>> \> I tried using the J GUI to install the base library, but by > default, > >>> gtkide > >>>>> isn't installed. It says to install 'gtkide', so that's what I did. > >>>> > >>>> You can also use the GUI in the JHS interface to install addons (i.e. > >>>> it is not necessary to install GTK to use a GUI). I'd encourage you to > >>>> update the Wiki where you believe clarification is needed. > >>>> > >>> > >>> I've made some changes to the following pages on the wiki, would they > >>> have clarified things for you or is something still unclear? > >>> > >>> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/JAL/Package%20Manager > >>> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/JAL/User%20Guide > >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >>> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >> > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
