[Scilab-users] Problem installing modules manually (atomsInstall)

[amonmayr at laas.fr]

Le 01/15/2016 01:45 PM, Lester Anderson a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> Tried setting the proxy with the settings our IT guy gave in the
> Scilab preferences and it still failed, basically thinking it could
> not access the Internet (which is incorrect)!
>
> Trying the manual install again (downloaded a toolbox zip file) it
> looks like it still needs access!
>
> -->atomsInstall('scinetcdf_1.1.bin.x64.windows.zip')
>
> !
>           !
> !
>           !
> !gzip: C:\Users\xxxxxxx\AppData\Local\Temp\SCI_TM~1\ATOMS~1\1_TOOLBOXES.gz: not!
> !      in gzip format
>           !
> WARNING: atomsDESCRIPTIONget: Extraction of the DESCRIPTION file
> ('C:\Users\landerso\AppData\Local\Temp\SCI_TM~1\ATOMS~1\1_TOOLBOXES.gz')
> has failed.
> Scanning repository http://atoms.scilab.org/5.5 ... Skipped
>
>   !--error 10000
> All ATOMS repositories scan failed.
> at line     198 of function atomsDESCRIPTIONget called by :
> at line     227 of function atomsInstall called by :
> atomsInstall('scinetcdf_1.1.bin.x64.windows.zip')
>
> and ...
>
> -->atomsInstall('apifun_0.4.2-3.bin.zip')
>   !--error 21
> Invalid index.
> at line     170 of function atomsInstall called by :
> atomsInstall('apifun_0.4.2-3.bin.zip')
>
> Confused to say the least the errors vary between the different archives.
>
> I thought that atomsInstall could be used to install a module
> downloaded without having access to the Internet.

Well, there is something weird in the way the atoms system is working.
Whenever you install a package, it first fetches the list of all 
available packages (which takes a while).
I just ran a test by
I didn't find a way to turn it off.
It's particularly annoying because it re-fetched everything even if the 
list was updated seconds ago during a previous install.
When you install sequentially 5 local packages, it's really infuriating!
There's room for improvement:

- By default, turn off fetching when installing a local package,
- Cache locally the list and avoid refetching if there is no change or 
if it was updated XX minutes ago.
- Speed-up the process of updating the list: on my computer it takes 3 
minutes!

Antoine

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> On 15 January 2016 at 10:42, Lavitha Pereira <lavitha89 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Lester,
>>
>> If you are under proxy, follow the below instructions.
>>
>> Configure the network proxy
>>
>>
>> atomsSetConfig("Verbose","True")
>> atomsSetConfig("useProxy","True")
>> atomsSetConfig("proxyHost","myProxyHost")
>> atomsSetConfig("proxyPort","myProxyPort")
>> atomsSetConfig("proxyUser","myUserName")
>> atomsSetConfig("proxyPassword","myPassword")
>>
>>
>> Read the more documentation below:
>> https://wiki.scilab.org/ATOMS
>>
>> Reagrds,
>>
>> Lavita Pereira
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 3:59 PM, Lester Anderson <arctica1963 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> I assume that the following error from atomsGui is due to no direct
>>> port access to the Internet? The webpage links from Scilab work fine.
>>>
>>> Somewhat at a loss as to how to proceed. Do I need to get the IT guys
>>> to open a port/proxy access ?
>>>
>>> Works fine when I do things from home.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> On 15 January 2016 at 06:37, Lester Anderson <arctica1963 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Just installed v5.5.2 and get the same issue when trying to install a
>>>> module manually, error 21 at line 170 of atomsInstall
>>>>
>>>> Scilab is installed in Program Files on Windows, and so I am guessing
>>>> that it might be a permissions issue for a work machine?
>>>>
>>>> On 13 January 2016 at 08:51, Lester Anderson <arctica1963 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I currently have v5.4.1 of Scilab, and have to install modules
>>>>> manually.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am trying to install apifun (as quite a few modules use it), but get
>>>>> this error
>>>>>
>>>>> -->atomsInstall('c:\ss20-work\scilab\apifun_0.4.2-3.bin.zip')
>>>>>   !--error 21
>>>>> Invalid index.
>>>>> at line     170 of function atomsInstall called by :
>>>>> atomsInstall('c:\ss20-work\scilab\apifun_0.4.2-3.bin.zip')
>>>>>
>>>>> Checked the code for atomsInstall:
>>>>>
>>>>> eb_ki.Callback = "updateedit_ki";  Line 170
>>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas how to resolve this? Will have to follow the same procedure
>>>>> for v5.5.2 when I update.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Lester
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Thanks & Regards,
>> Lavitha M. Pereira
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