What is the .cache directory actually? And why is it moved into the ~\.julia folder for 0.4?
From: julia-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:julia-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tony Kelman Sent: Friday, September 25, 2015 2:35 PM To: julia-users <julia-users@googlegroups.com> Subject: [julia-users] Re: Pkg.[update()/install()/build()] woes on Windows 10 64 bit Try deleting everything in C:\Users\ejfie\.julia\v0.3\.cache - something might be corrupt there On Friday, September 25, 2015 at 12:29:14 PM UTC-7, Evan Fields wrote: I've been encountering problems with packages. Here's what happened: * I installed Julia 0.3.11 via the 64 bit .exe on julialang.org <http://julialang.org> * Changed the install path to C:\Julia-0.3.11 but otherwise all default options * On Windows 10 x64, not using Cygwin or related * Right after install I opened a Julia terminal window; I had the session below. The errors are shown in the session below. I've tried - Running as an administrator - Running git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git:// in shell mode - Running Pkg.init() (already initialized) - Trying to clone a repository in Julia/Git using the git-bash there (it worked over https) _ _ _(_)_ | A fresh approach to technical computing (_) | (_) (_) | Documentation: http://docs.julialang.org _ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "help()" for help. | | | | | | |/ _` | | | | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 0.3.11 (2015-07-27 06:18 UTC) _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_| | Official http://julialang.org/ release |__/ | x86_64-w64-mingw32 julia> Pkg.add("Images") INFO: Nothing to be done INFO: METADATA is out-of-date — you may not have the latest version of Images INFO: Use `Pkg.update()` to get the latest versions of your packages julia> Pkg.update() INFO: Updating METADATA... Checking out files: 100% (1627/1627), done. INFO: Updating cache of Hexagons... INFO: Updating cache of Gadfly... INFO: Updating cache of ArrayViews... INFO: Updating cache of Lazy... INFO: Updating cache of ImmutableArrays... INFO: Updating cache of Graphics... INFO: Updating cache of StatsBase... INFO: Updating cache of Requires... INFO: Updating cache of MacroTools... INFO: Updating cache of NaNMath... INFO: Updating cache of FactCheck... INFO: Updating cache of DataArrays... INFO: Updating cache of Grid... INFO: Updating cache of Loess... INFO: Updating cache of Compat... INFO: Updating cache of FixedPointNumbers... INFO: Updating cache of WoodburyMatrices... INFO: Updating cache of Compose... INFO: Updating cache of JuliaParser... INFO: Updating cache of Iterators... INFO: Updating cache of JSON... INFO: Updating cache of DataFrames... INFO: Updating cache of GZip... INFO: Updating cache of Reexport... INFO: Updating cache of Showoff... INFO: Updating cache of Distributions... INFO: Updating cache of Optim... INFO: Updating cache of Color... INFO: Updating cache of SortingAlgorithms... INFO: Updating cache of Docile... INFO: Updating cache of Calculus... INFO: Updating cache of PDMats... INFO: Updating cache of DualNumbers... INFO: Updating cache of DataStructures... INFO: Updating cache of Jewel... ERROR: couldn't update C:\Users\ejfie\.julia\v0.3\.cache\Hexagons using `git remote update` in wait at task.jl:284 in wait at task.jl:194 in wait at task.jl:48 in sync_end at task.jl:311 in update at pkg/entry.jl:319 in anonymous at pkg/dir.jl:28 in cd at file.jl:30 in cd at pkg/dir.jl:28 in update at pkg.jl:41 julia> using Images ERROR: Images not properly installed. Please run Pkg.build("Images") then restart Julia. in error at error.jl:21 (repeats 2 times) while loading C:\Users\ejfie\.julia\v0.3\Images\src\ioformats/libmagickwand.jl, in expression starting on line 31 while loading C:\Users\ejfie\.julia\v0.3\Images\src\Images.jl, in expression starting on line 38 julia> Pkg.build("Images") INFO: Building Images =================================================[ ERROR: Images ]================================================= type Nothing has no field match while loading C:\Users\ejfie\.julia\v0.3\Images\deps\build.jl, in expression starting on line 37 =================================================================================================================== =================================================[ BUILD ERRORS ]================================================== WARNING: Images had build errors. - packages with build errors remain installed in C:\Users\ejfie\.julia\v0.3 - build the package(s) and all dependencies with `Pkg.build("Images")` - build a single package by running its `deps/build.jl` script =================================================================================================================== julia> Hopefully I'm missing something simple here! Any suggestion?
