V1.0 Pkg - Can't copy packages

[crbinz]

Here are a couple relevant topics that might have some helpful information:

How does one set up a centralized Julia installation?

I would like to start a thread about best practice for how to set up a centralized Julia installation in a cluster environment or local institution network. Hopefully, this will lead to a tutorial like write-up in the end. I want to focus on Julia 1.0 and, thus, Pkg(3). How does one set up a system wide Julia 1.0 installation, that is julia itself as well as commonly used packages? Requirements: Users should still be able to install packages not present in the central directories. As package…

How to create a system administrator depot?

This is from the Pkg section of the Julia doc about the DEPOT_PATH: How do I set up such a system administrator depot? Basically, what I want is to install a couple of packages system wide such that users don’t have to install them by themself. (This is in the context of How does one set up a centralized Julia installation?)