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installing julia

Asked by Huckleberry Febbo

Hello, I am a new julia user trying to install a more recent version of julia and I entered the commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:staticfloat/juliareleases
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:staticfloat/julia-deps
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install julia

from the website:
http://julialang.org/downloads/platform.html

but I get this error:

febbo@febbo-HP-ZBook-17-G2:/$ sudo apt-get install julia
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  julia-common libamd2.4.1 libcamd2.4.1 libccolamd2.9.1 libcholmod3.0.6 libdsfmt-19937-1 libopenlibm2 libopenspecfun1 libpcre2-8-0 libspqr2.0.2 libumfpack5.7.1 libutf8proc1
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
Suggested packages:
  ess julia-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  julia
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 338 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/20.2 MB of archives.
After this operation, 103 MB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 179057 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../julia_0.4.6-xenial1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking julia (0.4.6-xenial1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/julia_0.4.6-xenial1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/julia/base/dft.jl', which is also in package julia-common 0.4.5-3
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/julia_0.4.6-xenial1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Any ideas? Thanks!

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Run:

sudo dpkg --force-all -i /var/cache/apt/archives/julia_0.4.6-xenial1_amd64.deb

sudo apt-get -f install

You should contact the PPA maintainer to report the overlapping packages

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Huckleberry Febbo (febbo-) said : 		#2

Awesome, thanks!

So, that installed 0.4.6 for julia, I was actually looking to install a more recent version, perhaps v0.5.0-rc2. How do I do this now that I have 0.4.6? Do I remove 0.4.6?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

No idea. If there is a PPA with the newer version then just add it and then run normal updates and the package will be updated as normal

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Davood Hajinezhad (dhaji) said : 		#4

I have faced the same issue and I have tried your solution by running
sudo dpkg --force-all -i /var/cache/apt/archives/julia_0.4.6-xenial1_amd64.deb
but I got the error

dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/julia_0.4.6-xenial1_amd64.deb (--install):
 cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/julia_0.4.6-xenial1_amd64.deb

any help will be appreciated

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M Faraday (mfaraday) said : 		#5

In 16.04, this solved it for me:

sudo apt purge julia-common

then try again

sudo apt install julia

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