Pkg.add not working

New to Julia
1

Hi,

I tried to run a julia script with a single line
Pkg.add(“JuMP”)

Upon running this script with “julia .jl”, I get the following weird error:

julia> Pkg.add(“JuMP”)
INFO: Initializing package repository /home/rcf-40/amulyaya/.julia/v0.5
INFO: Cloning METADATA from https://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl
ERROR: GitError(Code:ERROR, Class:None, No errors)
in macro expansion at ./libgit2/error.jl:99 [inlined]
in clone(::String, ::String, ::Base.LibGit2.CloneOptions) at ./libgit2/repository.jl:191
in #clone#112(::String, ::Bool, ::Ptr{Void}, ::Nullable{Base.LibGit2.AbstractCredentials}, ::Function, ::String, ::String) at ./libgit2/libgit2.jl:327
in (::Base.LibGit2.#kw##clone)(::Array{Any,1}, ::Base.LibGit2.#clone, ::String, ::String) at ./:0
in (::Base.Pkg.Dir.##4#6{String,String})() at ./pkg/dir.jl:49
in cd(::Base.Pkg.Dir.##4#6{String,String}, ::String) at ./file.jl:59
in init(::String, ::String) at ./pkg/dir.jl:47
in #cd#1(::Array{Any,1}, ::Function, ::Function, ::String, ::Vararg{Any,N}) at ./pkg/dir.jl:28
in add(::String) at ./pkg/pkg.jl:100

Does anyone have any idea how to fix this?

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Looks like Julia is having an issue creating its METADATA directory from GitHub. I presume /home/rcf-40/amulyaya is your home directory? If so, does ~/.julia/v0.5/ exist? Do you have write permissions to your home directory (and space on the drive where your home directory is located)? How about ~/.julia/v0.5/METADATA/? If that exists, what happens if you cd into it and run git status?

3

The issue was that in trying to create the METADATA directory, my laptop was running out of space. I deleted some files and it worked like a charm.

Thanks for the help!