Great, Andreas!! I have removed my folder .julia and followed your
instructions:
julia> Pkg.init()
INFO: Initializing package repository /home/charles/.julia/v0.4
INFO: Cloning METADATA from git://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl
julia> Pkg.add("Distributions")
INFO: Cloning cache of ArrayViews from git://
github.com/lindahua/ArrayViews.jl.git
INFO: Cloning cache of Distributions from git://
github.com/JuliaStats/Distributions.jl.git
INFO: Cloning cache of PDMats from git://github.com/JuliaStats/PDMats.jl.git
INFO: Cloning cache of StatsBase from git://
github.com/JuliaStats/StatsBase.jl.git
INFO: Installing ArrayViews v0.4.6
INFO: Installing Distributions v0.5.4
INFO: Installing PDMats v0.2.4
INFO: Installing StatsBase v0.6.5
INFO: Package database updated
julia> Pkg.status()
2 required packages:
- Distributions 0.5.4
4 additional packages:
- ArrayViews 0.4.6
- DataStructures 0.3.2
- PDMats 0.2.4
- StatsBase 0.6.5
julia> using Distributions
Now Everything is working perfectly!
Thank you very much for your time! :)
Best,
Charles
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:20 AM, Andreas Noack <
andreasnoackjen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you don't want to delete the directory you could try to print the
> output from Pkg.status()
>
> Med venlig hilsen
>
> Andreas Noack
>
> 2014-09-23 18:19 GMT-04:00 Andreas Noack <andreasnoackjen...@gmail.com>:
>
> If you are using Julia 0.4 then your packages are in .julia/v0.4 not 0.3.
>> I don't think you should edit any of these files by hand. Somehow your
>> packages have gone into a weird state.
>>
>> I'd just delete the .julia/v0.4 directory and then run
>> Pkg.init();Pkg.add("Distributions")
>>
>> Med venlig hilsen
>>
>> Andreas Noack
>>
>> 2014-09-23 18:12 GMT-04:00 Charles Novaes de Santana <
>> charles.sant...@gmail.com>:
>>
>> Hi again,
>>>
>>> I don't know why PDMats and ArrayViews are "fixed". I don't even know
>>> what it means in Julia. Sorry.
>>>
>>> I tried Pkg.free("ArrayViews") and Pkg.free("PDMats") as you suggested,
>>> but I got some errors (below):
>>>
>>> WARNING: StatsBase is fixed at 0.3.9+ conflicting with requirement for
>>> Distributions: [0.5.1-,∞)
>>> WARNING: PDMats is fixed at 0.1.1+ conflicting with requirement for
>>> Distributions: [0.2.2-,∞)
>>> ERROR: fixed packages introduce conflicting requirements for ArrayViews:
>>> StatsBase requires versions [0.4.6-,∞) [none of the available
>>> versions can satisfy this requirement]
>>> PDMats requires versions [0.4.0-,∞)
>>> Distributions requires versions [0.4.3-,∞) [none of the
>>> available versions can satisfy this requirement]
>>> available versions are 0.1.0, 0.1.1, 0.2.0, 0.2.1, 0.2.2, 0.2.3,
>>> 0.2.4, 0.2.5, 0.3.0, 0.4.0 and 0.4.1
>>> in error at error.jl:21
>>> in check_requirements at pkg/query.jl:109
>>> in resolve at ./pkg/entry.jl:387
>>> in resolve at pkg/entry.jl:371
>>> in anonymous at pkg/entry.jl:189
>>> in transact at pkg/git.jl:81
>>> in _checkout at pkg/entry.jl:181
>>> in free at pkg/entry.jl:211
>>> in anonymous at pkg/dir.jl:28
>>> in cd at ./file.jl:20
>>> in __cd#230__ at ./pkg/dir.jl:28
>>> in free at pkg.jl:37
>>>
>>> But I followed some instructions in this webpage:
>>> http://julia.readthedocs.org/en/latest/manual/packages/
>>>
>>> It says: "Your package requirements are in the file
>>> ~/.julia/v0.3/REQUIRE. You can edit this file by hand and then call
>>> Pkg.resolve() to install, upgrade or remove packages to optimally
>>> satisfy the requirements"
>>>
>>> So I edited the REQUIRE file by removing the line "Distributions". Then
>>> I came back to Julia and run
>>>
>>> julia> Pkg.resolve()
>>>
>>> julia> Pkg.checkout("Distributions")
>>>
>>> julia> Pkg.status("Distributions")
>>> - Distributions 0.4.2+ master
>>>
>>> julia> using Distributions
>>>
>>> And I could load Distributions correctly.
>>>
>>> I tried the same thing for ArrayViews and PDMats but I got the following
>>> message from "Pkg.resolve()"
>>>
>>> julia> Pkg.resolve()
>>> WARNING: ArrayViews is fixed at 0.4.1+ conflicting with requirement for
>>> StatsBase: [0.4.6-,∞)
>>> WARNING: ArrayViews is fixed at 0.4.1+ conflicting with requirement for
>>> Distributions: [0.4.3-,∞)
>>> WARNING: StatsBase is fixed at 0.3.9+ conflicting with requirement for
>>> Distributions: [0.5.1-,∞)
>>> WARNING: PDMats is fixed at 0.1.1+ conflicting with requirement for
>>> Distributions: [0.2.2-,∞)
>>> INFO: No packages to install, update or remove
>>>
>>> Thank you for your help! I see I have too much to study to better
>>> understand how Julia works.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Charles
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:57 PM, Andreas Noack <
>>> andreasnoackjen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Do you have a reason to have ArrayViews and PDMats fixed? If not try
>>>> Pkg.free("ArrayViews") and Pkg.free("PDMats")
>>>>
>>>> Med venlig hilsen
>>>>
>>>> Andreas Noack
>>>>
>>>> 2014-09-23 17:51 GMT-04:00 Charles Novaes de Santana <
>>>> charles.sant...@gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>> Hi guys, thank you for the quick reply!
>>>>>
>>>>> About my version of Distributions:
>>>>> julia> Pkg.status("Distributions")
>>>>> - Distributions 0.4.2 master
>>>>>
>>>>> And, yes, I am building julia from master (the default option,
>>>>> right?). I tried to update Distributions and I got the following error:
>>>>>
>>>>> julia> Pkg.checkout("Distributions")
>>>>> INFO: Checking out Distributions master...
>>>>> INFO: Pulling Distributions latest master...
>>>>> WARNING: ArrayViews is fixed at 0.4.1+ conflicting with requirement
>>>>> for Distributions: [0.4.3-,∞)
>>>>> WARNING: PDMats is fixed at 0.1.1+ conflicting with requirement for
>>>>> Distributions: [0.2.2-,∞)
>>>>> ERROR: fixed packages introduce conflicting requirements for
>>>>> StatsBase:
>>>>> Distributions requires versions [0.5.1-,∞) [none of the
>>>>> available versions can satisfy this requirement]
>>>>> available versions are 0.0.0, 0.2.0, 0.2.1, 0.2.3, 0.2.4,
>>>>> 0.2.5, 0.2.6, 0.2.7, 0.2.8, 0.2.9, 0.3.0, 0.3.1, 0.3.2, 0.3.3, 0.3.4,
>>>>> 0.3.5, 0.3.6, 0.3.7, 0.3.8 and 0.3.9
>>>>> in error at error.jl:21
>>>>> in check_requirements at pkg/query.jl:109
>>>>> in resolve at ./pkg/entry.jl:387
>>>>> in resolve at pkg/entry.jl:371
>>>>> in anonymous at pkg/entry.jl:189
>>>>> in transact at pkg/git.jl:81
>>>>> in _checkout at pkg/entry.jl:181
>>>>> in checkout at pkg/entry.jl:196
>>>>> in anonymous at pkg/dir.jl:28
>>>>> in cd at ./file.jl:20
>>>>> in cd at pkg/dir.jl:28
>>>>> in checkout at pkg.jl:34
>>>>>
>>>>> So, I will try to checkout version 0.3 of Julia and see what happens.
>>>>> It seems that this problem with Cholesky is a very common issue, but so
>>>>> far
>>>>> I couldn't find a good solution for it in the forums in internet.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>>
>>>>> Charles
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:45 PM, Tim Holy <tim.h...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I assume you're building julia from master. One likely cure is to
>>>>>> check out
>>>>>> the release-0.3 branch and stick with that. Alternatively, see if you
>>>>>> can
>>>>>> update Distributions so it works on 0.4-dev.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best
>>>>>> --Tim
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tuesday, September 23, 2014 11:08:40 PM Charles Novaes de Santana
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> > Dear Julia users,
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I was trying to use package Distributions, but I got the following
>>>>>> error:
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > julia> using Distributions
>>>>>> > Warning: could not import Base.add! into NumericExtensions
>>>>>> > Warning: could not import Base.add! into PDMats
>>>>>> > ERROR: Cholesky not defined
>>>>>> > in include at ./boot.jl:246
>>>>>> > in include_from_node1 at ./loading.jl:128
>>>>>> > in reload_path at loading.jl:152
>>>>>> > in _require at loading.jl:67
>>>>>> > in require at loading.jl:54
>>>>>> > in include at ./boot.jl:246
>>>>>> > in include_from_node1 at ./loading.jl:128
>>>>>> > in reload_path at loading.jl:152
>>>>>> > in _require at loading.jl:67
>>>>>> > in require at loading.jl:51
>>>>>> > while loading /home/charles/.julia/PDMats/src/PDMats.jl, in
>>>>>> expression
>>>>>> > starting on line 31
>>>>>> > while loading
>>>>>> /home/charles/.julia/Distributions/src/Distributions.jl, in
>>>>>> > expression starting on line 4
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I found some posts about the same problem. One of the most recent
>>>>>> is this
>>>>>> > one: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/6436
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > However, even after running "Pkg.update()" the error continues.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Any idea about it?
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > My versiton of Julia is: Version 0.4.0-dev+734 (2014-09-23 18:22
>>>>>> UTC)
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Thank you for any comment!
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Best,
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Charles
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Um axé! :)
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Charles Novaes de Santana, PhD
>>>>> http://www.imedea.uib-csic.es/~charles
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Um axé! :)
>>>
>>> --
>>> Charles Novaes de Santana, PhD
>>> http://www.imedea.uib-csic.es/~charles
>>>
>>
>>
>
--
Um axé! :)
--
Charles Novaes de Santana, PhD
http://www.imedea.uib-csic.es/~charles
