I am absolutely new to Julia and wanted to give it a first try. On a computer with windows 7 I installed Julia-0.3.0 (flawlessly). The -very first- instruction that I typed on Julia's console was Pkg.add("Cairo")
I was willing to follow a hands on tutorial which included some plot examples which required the Cairo package. The process failed. What could have gone wrong if I installed the latest Julia version in a computer that has never seen Julia before? What should be done in order to install The Cairo package correctly? How to 'uninstall' and 're-install' a package in Julia?. I would appreciate any help on these matters. What follows is a copy of Julia's console: _ _ _ _(_)_ | A fresh approach to technical computing (_) | (_) (_) | Documentation: http://docs.julialang.org _ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "help()" for help. | | | | | | |/ _` | | | | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 0.3.0 (2014-08-20 20:43 UTC) _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_| | Official http://julialang.org/ build |__/ | x86_64-w64-mingw32 julia> Pkg.add("Cairo") INFO: Initializing package repository C:\Users\julio_valdes\.julia\v0.3 INFO: Cloning METADATA from git://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl INFO: Cloning cache of BinDeps from git://github.com/JuliaLang/BinDeps.jl.git INFO: Cloning cache of Cairo from git://github.com/JuliaLang/Cairo.jl.git INFO: Cloning cache of Color from git://github.com/JuliaLang/Color.jl.git INFO: Cloning cache of FixedPointNumbers from git://github.com/JeffBezanson/FixedPointNumbers.jl.git INFO: Cloning cache of HTTPClient from git://github.com/amitmurthy/HTTPClient.jl.git INFO: Cloning cache of LibCURL from git://github.com/amitmurthy/LibCURL.jl.git INFO: Cloning cache of LibExpat from git://github.com/amitmurthy/LibExpat.jl.git INFO: Cloning cache of SHA from git://github.com/staticfloat/SHA.jl.git INFO: Cloning cache of URIParser from git://github.com/Keno/URIParser.jl.git INFO: Cloning cache of URLParse from git://github.com/tanmaykm/URLParse.jl.git INFO: Cloning cache of WinRPM from git://github.com/JuliaLang/WinRPM.jl.git INFO: Cloning cache of Zlib from git://github.com/dcjones/Zlib.jl.git INFO: Installing BinDeps v0.3.5 INFO: Installing Cairo v0.2.16 INFO: Installing Color v0.3.7 INFO: Installing FixedPointNumbers v0.0.2 INFO: Installing HTTPClient v0.1.4 INFO: Installing LibCURL v0.1.4 INFO: Installing LibExpat v0.0.4 INFO: Installing SHA v0.0.3 INFO: Installing URIParser v0.0.2 INFO: Installing URLParse v0.0.0 INFO: Installing WinRPM v0.1.2 INFO: Installing Zlib v0.1.7 INFO: Building LibCURL WARNING: This package has been deprecated in favour of JuliaWeb/URIParser.jl https://github.com/JuliaWeb/URIParser.jl As of Julia 0.4 this package will no longer be installable through `Pkg.add`. Please convert your code according. WARNING: skipping repodata/repomd.xml, not in cache -- call WinRPM.update() to download WARNING: skipping repodata/repomd.xml, not in cache -- call WinRPM.update() to download INFO: Updating WinRPM package list INFO: Downloading http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/windows:/mingw:/win32/openSUSE_13.1//repodata/repomd.xml INFO: Downloading http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/windows:/mingw:/win32/openSUSE_13.1//repodata/fa143b5bc3308b4a360b098a0e5bf6425b a92506d3e957295c8f9318bbcba8c7-primary.xml.gz INFO: Downloading http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/windows:/mingw:/win64/openSUSE_13.1//repodata/repomd.xml INFO: Downloading http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/windows:/mingw:/win64/openSUSE_13.1//repodata/a15dc699574afb67fc282682470e7ff10b 341034c1202e97d7c0c708672dd81b-primary.xml.gz INFO: Packages to install: libgcc_s_seh1, libgpg-error6-0, libintl8, libgcrypt20, libsqlite3-0, libidn11, zlib1, libssh2-1, mozilla-nss, moz illa-nspr, libcurl4 INFO: Downloading: libgcc_s_seh1 INFO: Extracting: libgcc_s_seh1 INFO: Downloading: libgpg-error6-0 INFO: Extracting: libgpg-error6-0 INFO: Downloading: libintl8 INFO: Extracting: libintl8 INFO: Downloading: libgcrypt20 INFO: Extracting: libgcrypt20 INFO: Downloading: libsqlite3-0 INFO: Extracting: libsqlite3-0 INFO: Downloading: libidn11 INFO: Extracting: libidn11 INFO: Downloading: zlib1 INFO: Extracting: zlib1 INFO: Downloading: libssh2-1 INFO: Extracting: libssh2-1 INFO: Downloading: mozilla-nss INFO: Extracting: mozilla-nss INFO: Downloading: mozilla-nspr INFO: Extracting: mozilla-nspr INFO: Downloading: libcurl4 INFO: Extracting: libcurl4 INFO: Complete INFO: Building WinRPM INFO: Downloading http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/windows:/mingw:/win32/openSUSE_13.1//repodata/repomd.xml INFO: Downloading http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/windows:/mingw:/win64/openSUSE_13.1//repodata/repomd.xml INFO: Building Cairo ==============================================================[ ERROR: Cairo ]============================================================== None of the selected providers could satisfy library group cairo Use BinDeps.debug(package_name) to see available providers while loading C:\Users\julio_valdes\.julia\v0.3\Cairo\deps\build.jl, in expression starting on line 136 ============================================================================================================================================ ==============================================================[ BUILD ERRORS ]============================================================== WARNING: Cairo had build errors. - packages with build errors remain installed in C:\Users\julio_valdes\.julia\v0.3 - build a package and all its dependencies with `Pkg.build(pkg)` - build a single package by running its `deps/build.jl` script ============================================================================================================================================ INFO: Package database updated julia>