Unable to add packages in v1.2

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Hi all,

I just installed v1.2 but am now unable to add packages. I’m getting the following error:

ERROR: could not load library "libgit2"
libcurl.so.4: ELF load command address/offset not properly aligned

I’m running Julia under Arch. What should I do?

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Could’ve you download for the wrong number of bits, 32 vs 64?

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It was a regular update via Arch’s package manager, but I checked, and it’s the right (64 bit) version. I uninstalled, re-installed, but no luck. Might I have more luck if I uninstall and then download from the website and build?

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I haven’t used pacman’s Julia in a long time, but it makes sense that it should work.
I use JILL (disclaimer: package author), which downloads from the website and unpacks in good places. But you should uninstall first.

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Thanks, this looks useful. However, when I run the script, I get the message: “The folder ‘/home/igor/.local/bin’ is not on your PATH”. In fact, in .local/ there is no folder called ‘bin’. I know it’s easy to create the folder, but I’m not a Linux specialist and I’m worried that I might mess things up. Or is it safe to do this and then run the script anew?

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I created the folder, added it to my path, but still got an error message:

JILL - Julia Installer 4 Linux (and MacOS) - Light

Distributed under terms of the GPLv3 license.

This script will:

  • Download latest stable Julia

  • Create a link for julia

  • Create a link for julia-VER

Download folder: /home/igor/packages/julias

Link folder: /home/igor/.local/bin

Download folder will be created if required

confirm:read:1: -p: no coprocess

Aborted

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I ended up downloading the binaries and now everything is working fine.

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Sorry about that. I think it’s related to zsh. Possibly running bash jill.sh could work. Glad to hear it’s working now. Thanks for trying.

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If you use bashisms in your script, you’re better off specifying /bin/bash in the shebang line, rather than assuming that /bin/sh points to bash. In Debian-based systems, /bin/sh points to a very simple shell called Dash by default and your script would fail because you define functions with the function keyword.

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Thanks, I’ll do that.

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Has there been a change between v1.1 and v1.2 that affects the build process? In v1.2 when I try to use a package I get the error “C:*********.julia\packages\SpecialFunctions\fvheQ\deps\usr\bin\libopenspecfun.dll cannot be opened, Please re-run Pkg.build(“SpecialFunctions”), and restart Julia.” Using the package manager to build(“SpecialFunctions”) I get “Error: Error building SpecialFunctions:
│ ┌ Warning: On Windows, creating file symlinks requires Administrator privileges”. This second error does not occur with Julia v1.1.

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Try that.

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Thanks for the reply.

That is exactly what I did (without the comma) and it gave the error regarding administrator rights.

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running

Pkg.build("SpecialFunctions")

multiple times gives variable results. Sometimes it gives me the error regarding administrator priviledges and other times it returns “none”. When the latter occurs the module will run.

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This is a bug in the julia ArchLinux package. It was reported to the Arch package. You can click on (Add vote) if you are affected.

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