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1

I would like to try:

https://github.com/JuliaEcosystem/PkgDeps.jl/pull/39

How can I install it in Julia on Linux?

2

if you already have the original pkg deved or git cloned somewhere, cd there and:

git remote add somefork https://github.com/danielmatz/PkgDeps.jl/
git fetch
git switch use-pkg-registry-api

actually, it’s probably easier if you just use Julia Pkg:

] dev https://github.com/danielmatz/PkgDeps.jl

then cd to ~/.julia/dev/PkgDeps/ and run

git switch use-pkg-registry-api

(you may need to ]resolve afterwards)

3

Thanks for your explanation!

It did not solve my original problem, though. All I want is to be able to use the package “PackageAnalyzer”. It does not work with Julia 1.7 without the pull request mentioned above.
Bug report: Deal with compressed registry in Julia v1.7 · Issue #67 · JuliaEcosystem/PackageAnalyzer.jl · GitHub

I still get this error message:
"julia> analyze("DataFrames")
ERROR: ArgumentError: collection must be non-empty
Stacktrace:
 [1] first
   @ ./abstractarray.jl:419 [inlined]
 [2] general_registry
   @ ~/.julia/packages/PackageAnalyzer/8nIpt/src/PackageAnalyzer.jl:165 [inlined]
 [3] analyze(name_or_dir_or_url::String)
   @ PackageAnalyzer ~/.julia/packages/PackageAnalyzer/8nIpt/src/PackageAnalyzer.jl:453
 [4] top-level scope
   @ REPL[8]:1
"

Any idea?

4

check ]st to see if you’re using your local copy correctly ?

5

You can also use GitHubs official CLI tool gh (I like it a lot). Specifically, you clone the repo as usual and then simply run

gh pr checkout 39
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