I wanted to do something with qtjambi. I installed version 4.6.3. I can run the examples, but when I want to compile for example ArthurFrame, I get:
ArthurFrame.java:47: package com.trolltech.qt.core does not exist
When searching for help, it looks everything is dead. The mailing-lists do not exist anymore and on #qtjambi there is no response. Should I just not start with qtjambi, or is there another place to get help?
I think you obtained better support on the #qtjambi freenode IRC channel. When using IRC for support you should be prepared to ask your question and wait for an answer, at least 12 months but sometimes a few days, during this time you should stay connected and "idling".
From there it was discovered you are using a Linux distribution that already has automated builds of a recent QtJambi available.
Ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/~qtjambi-community/+archive/libqtjambi-snapshots
Instructions on the page for how to install.
openSuSE, SuSE, Fedora, RHEL, CentOS: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=qtjambi-snapshots&project=home%3Adlmiles%3Aqtjambi-community
Click on the link that is the name of the Liunux disto you are using (such as "openSuSE_12.2").
Click on the link that says "Go to download repository".
Click on the file *.repo to download and save on the local system. Such as "home:dlmiles:qtjambi-community.repo"
Install this file as 'root' into /etc/yup.repos.d/home:dlmiles:qtjambi-community.repo
Edit the file to set the 'enabled=1' or manually add the --enablerepo=home:dlmiles:qtjambi-community when using yum to install.
Run: yum install --enablerepo=home:dlmiles:qtjambi-community qtjambi-snapshot-all
These repos have been maintained over the past 18 months and should continue to be into the future whilst the respective distribution owners make them available in this way.
Once installed in this way you will get updates as and when they are published as part of your normal system package management. So is has historically been about every 3 months.
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I installed Scilab 5.5.2 on Windows 10, and then installed the Scilab Code Generator toolbox.
However, when I start Scilab, the following message appears and I can't use the toolbox. This problem occurs for every toolbox.
Start Scilab Code Generator
Version: 0.9.20190122
Load macros
atomsLoad: An error occurred while loading 'xcos_code_generator-0.9.20190122':
File "C:\Users\光\AppData\Roaming\Scilab\SCILAB~1.2\atoms\x64\XCOS_C~1\09E129~1.201\macros\names" does not exist or read access denied.
(光 is my username.)
I suppose the problem comes from "\Scilab\SCILAB~1.2" in the middle of the file path. In my computer, the only folder in "Scilab" is "scilab-5.5.2", so indeed the software cannot find the file it's looking for.
Does anyone have any ideas?
I need to use the toolbox at work soon, so any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
Note: I'm not using the latest Scilab 6.0.2 because it fails to work on my computer. It closes immediately after I open it.
I solved the problem by myself.
It was my user name "光" that caused the problem. I found people saying that user names in full-width characters such as Japanese sometimes cause problems like this.
The solution is to create another user account with a name in half-width characters and install Scilab in that account. (Just changing the full-width user name doesn't work because it doesn't change the filenames that already exist.)
I couldn't find the solution until today because I was searching for solutions only in the context of Scilab, not in the context of software in general.
I hope this answer helps someone.
I'm not sure why you are using an outdated version of Scilab. The latest version is 6.0.2 on Windows. If the newer version doesn't work properly then that's the problem you need to fix first. To test your Scilab installation you may run it in the terminal. Find the installation folder. For me, it is C:\Program Files\scilab-6.0.2\bin the on cmd go to the path and run Scilex.exe. If not uninstall everything and install it in a proper way. My recommendation is to uninstall the old Scilab you already have. Then:
Install Chocolatey package manager
Open PowerShell as Admin and run choco update all -y, once in a while update your packages this way.
run choco install Scilab -y
then open the Scilab software
run the atomsInstall("xcos_code_generator") in the console
runt the atomsLoad("xcos_code_generator") to make sure your package is installed properly. You should see this as a result:
--> atomsInstall("xcos_code_generator")
Scanning repository http://atoms.scilab.org/6.0 ... Done
ans =
!xcos_code_generator 0.9.201901 user SCIHOME\atoms\x64\xcos_code_generator\0.9.201901 I !
--> atomsLoad("xcos_code_generator");
Start Scilab Code Generator
Version: 0.9.20190122
Load macros
Load help
Load demos
When I run apt install r-base it provides me with a slightly out-dated version of R. When I tried to look up how to get a newer version, much of what I found did something to the file /etc/apt/source.list. The content of this file is
#deb cdrom:[Linux Mint 18.3 _Sylvia_ - Release amd64 20171124]/ xenial contrib $
Most instructions suggest appending something like
deb http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/debian wheezy-cran3/
But none of the various suggestions I've read have worked--presumably either because they were for non-Mint distros or they were for outdated versions of Mint. I tried taking something that I found, like
http://cran.ma.imperial.ac.uk/bin/linux/ubuntu trusty/
and editing it with the codename that I found elsewhere which seems to be the most recent, hence making it
http://cran.ma.imperial.ac.uk/bin/linux/ubuntu sylvia/
But when I ran the update it couldn't find the repo, presumably because places that have Trusty don't necessarily have Sylvia--although maybe it didn't work for some other reason. (And I notice the UK address which probably is bad for me to be using in America, but I don't really get how I'm supposed to find an address that will have the right files.)
Since I see a number of times when this question has been asked and solutions always seem to be short-lived, applying only so long as that particular version is hosted by that particular address and is the latest version--can I ask something where the answer might have a little more longevity: In general, how do you find the right thing to add to your /etc/apt/source.list file to make this work? How do you find the right repo source (same thing as a mirror?), the current codename, and so on? (It would also be nice to have a generalized procedure for how to solve this, because I basically ran into the same problem on my old computer with a 32-bit architecture, and would like to have R running on that too without having to ask the question a second time--but presumably the specific thing and place I'll have to download for that is different.)
I am trying to follow this tutorial, in order to install the Nix package manager in my home directory instead of /nix.
I am doing the PRoot installation (see 2. in tutorial). At the end, the
tutorial proposes to be smart in Building native packages section, to be
able to run packages without PRoot:
To run packages natively (without PRoot) they have to be build from source because all paths to the nix store are hard-coded. It is simple, really:
mkdir $HOME/nix
nix-channel --update
env NIX_STORE_DIR=$HOME/nix nix-env -i nix
And now your Nix store gets built up using the new paths. The built binaries can be run directly from there.
I did that, but I don't see how it frees me from PRoot. If I don't do the /nix mounting point with PRoot, nothing works (no nix-env executable,
I can't install new packages).
Should this NIX_STORE_DIR environment variable be put in my .bashrc ?
It seems I always need to run PRoot because ~/.nix-profile points to
a /nix/... directory:
.nix-profile -> /nix/var/nix/profiles/default
There are more steps in the tutorial (5., 6.) - should I follow them ? It seems they apply only in case of using the manual installation (step 4.),
although it is not explicit.
Any help would be appreciated :)
For anyone stumbling on this old question: there is no currently supported way to install Nix without root. The above wiki was moved to https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nix_Installation_Guide . It may well be out of date. PRoot could work, but even then, rebuilding the whole store at a different path is not a good idea, not the least because the binary caches won't help and you'll need to build everything.
I suggest trying Nix in a virtual machine or cloud server.
Future people from Google, it's still unsupported but does work. Script here that installs a couple dependencies, builds a temporary Nix, and uses that to install a proper version in your directory of choice.
In the R FAQ section 4.6 (Package TclTk does not work) I found the following sentence:
... although they [missing Tcl/tk packages] may be downloaded via the Teacup facility
What is "teacup"? How can I install and use it?
I am using RStudio running on Ubuntu Linux and Windows 7.
Teacup is a program that ships as part of ActiveTcl, a commercial zero-cost distribution of Tcl (and Tk and many other packages) for various platforms. It does package management, looking after the key part that is download, installation and upgrading of packages from a remote repository. It is not open source, though Tcl itself is (as are the majority of packages that aren't single-company-specific).
If you've got it installed, you use these commands from a shell:
teacup update-self
teacup update
Depending on where your Tcl installation is, you might need to elevate privileges to make these command calls work. How you do this is platform-dependent; on Unix it's usually simplest to use sudo for each of the commands, whereas on Windows it is probably easier to create an elevated command shell and run inside that.
Depending on your site, you might need to configure a web proxy with teacup proxy. Try without first.
If you're using a non-ActiveTcl installation but you have an ActiveTcl installation present, you can still use teacup. You just need to use teacup link to connect that Tcl installation to the teacup local repository. This is slightly more complex because you can have multiple repositories on the one system (though I've never needed that).
First, you find where the repository is:
teacup default
Then you need to link the shell to the repository:
teacup link make $PATH_FROM_TEACUP_DEFAULT $LOCATION_OF_TCLSH_TO_LINK
Making this work with R Studio will be a matter of determining which Tcl installation it is using. If it's already an ActiveTcl, you just need the first part of this answer. Otherwise, you need the second part as well. Also note that pretty much requires that you be using either Tcl 8.5 or 8.6; there are no guarantees for older, unsupported versions.
I'd like to discover the guile ecosystem. I looked at how to install a library and I didn't find a package manager, like python's pip. Does such a thing exist for guile ?
Looks like guildhall is the closest thing to pip out there. There has been some discussion on the Guile mailing lists recently around it. The posts by Wingo, Boubekki, Zaretskii, and a few others who are heavily involved with Guile development indicate a push towards making guildhall an upstream source for something called Guix that is a more general package manager intended to be independent of platform.
If you consult the Guix list of packages you will see guile there and a number of other guile related items (e.g. guile-json, guile-ncurses, etc..). I'd give that a shot. Otherwise you're on your own and you'll have to either fall back to the OS package manager or pull down the source yourself, build, and install.
Full disclosure: I haven't tried Guix myself but I've been meaning to. I'd be very interested to see how it turns out for you so if you do go this route it'd be awesome if you could provide an update with your Guix experience.
There's also been a recent call to update the libraries page and from a quick inspection there's been some small number of updates that you may find useful.
#unclejamil This is an update of my attempt to install the guix package manager.
Documentation
First of all, the links:
the official page: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/
the download page: http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/ (guix-the-system and guix the package manager are listed together)
Installation (Debian)
Guix needs Guile-2.0-dev and more dependencies, which are present in Debian's repositories:
apt-get install guile-2.0-dev guile-2.0 libgcrypt20-dev libbz2-dev libsqlite3-dev autopoint
Download guix. See the above links to download a binary. Or get the sources:
git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/guix.git
The installation goes with a classical ./configure && make && make install.
make will take several minutes and make install needs root access. If you install from source, make will build guile objects of the 346 base packages (python, zsh, abiword,…) so it'll take a long time (the database is included into guix-the-program, so we must do that. You can still tweak this list in the Makefile, at MODULES) .
Note: Your current directory must not contain non ascii characters.
Note: see also this complete tutorial, with the focus on how to install guix locally, i.e. not to run make install: http://dustycloud.org/blog/guix-package-manager-without-make-install/
Usage
To install packages with guix, we need a running server.
The first method, for testing purposes, is simply to run the server in a terminal:
sudo guix-daemon
and the client in another one:
guix package -s "guile.*curses" # search with regexps
sudo guix package -i guile-ncurses # install. All start with the "package" command.
For the proper method, see https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Build-Environment-Setup.html#Build-Environment-Setup
To be continued.
This answer is a community wiki, feel free to complete it, thanks !
I am building Guix right now and encountered the same error about not finding guile-2.0. I managed to fix it by installing the development files for guile-2.0
sudo apt-get install guile-2.0-dev
I encountered some more errors later on and it just meant I needed to install the development files for it.