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

Lester Anderson arctica1963 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 15 15:16:46 CET 2016 

tried atomsSetConfig('Offline','True') with no change in result

As you say Antoine, room for improvement in terms of installing
offline for sure.

On 15 January 2016 at 13:29, Stéphane Mottelet <stephane.mottelet at utc.fr> wrote:
> Le 15/01/2016 14:25, Lester Anderson a écrit :
>>
>> Hello Antoine,
>>
>> How does one get a "cached" version of the repository list and where
>> is it placed?
>>
>> -->atomsRepositoryList()
>>   ans  =
>>
>> !http://atoms.scilab.org/5.5  official  !
>>
>> -->atomsVersion()
>>   ans  =
>>
>>   5.5
>>
>> Is there an option to disable fetching when installing locally,
>> presumably after one has cached module list.
>
>
> maybe
>
> atomsSetConfig offLine True
>
> S.
>
>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> On 15 January 2016 at 13:13,  <amonmayr at laas.fr> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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>>>>> --
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>>>>> Lavitha M. Pereira
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