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CaitlinG
CaitlinG

Reputation: 2015

Encountering an error when installing a package in Julia

Using Windows XP(sp3) and Julia 0.3.3, I encountered the following error when attempting to perform a package installation:

julia> Pkg.add("Images")
INFO: Initializing package repository C:\emacs\.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
fatal: Unable to look up github.com (port 9418) (No such host is known. )
ERROR: chmod: no such file or directory (ENOENT)
 in wait at task.jl:51
 in sync_end at task.jl:311
 in add at pkg/entry.jl:319
 in add at pkg/entry.jl:71
 in anonymous at pkg/dir.jl:28
 in cd at file.jl:30
 in cd at pkg/dir.jl:28
 in add at pkg.jl:20

julia>

I am extremely new to both Git and Julia, so any constructive assistance would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1131

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1328712

If the git:// protocol (which uses the port 9418) is somehow not working (maybe 9418 is blocked), you could switch to https.

From "Julia: Adding/Removing packages":

Because the package manager uses git internally to manage the package git repositories, users may run into protocol issues (if behind a firewall, for example), when running Pkg.add.
The following command can be run from the command line to tell git to use ‘https’ instead of the ‘git’ protocol when cloning repositories:

git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git://

Upvotes: 2

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