From: Jorge Gajon on
On 2010-03-30, Haris Bogdanovic <fbogdanovic(a)xnet.hr> wrote:
> After
> (asdf-install:install :wxcl)
> I got
> Server responded 302 for GET
> http://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/wxcl/wxcl/wxcl-1.3.0/wxcl-all-platform-1-3-0.tar.gz.asc
> [Condition of type ASDF-INSTALL::DOWNLOAD-ERROR]

That's because the file it is trying to download is not there. I get a
404 Not Found using `wget`. You see a 302 because you are being
redirected somewhere else, and then when the file is not found the
condition DOWNLOAD-ERROR is signaled.

The file *.asc is used to verify the integrity and signature of the
package, but it is not strictly necessary. Try again, and choose one of
the RESTARTS offered to skip verifying the signature.

> Then I tried local install
>
> (asdf-install:install "c:\wxcl.tar.gz") and got
> Socket error in "connect": 2 (No such file or directory)
> but file is there.

You forgot to escape the inverted slash. "c:\\wxcl.tar.gz".



From: Haris Bogdanovic on
I tried to install packages from the web like for example
(asdf-install:install :cffi)
Then I press 1 for system wide install
Then it starts downloading and when it finshes it says
"Downloading 182805 bytes from
http://common-lisp.net/project/cffi/releases/cffi_latest.tar.gz ..."
Then after pressing 0 for skip-gpg-check option it says
"Installing c:\lisp\CFFI.asdf-install-tmp in
C:\lisp\sbcl\site\,C:\lisp\sbcl\site-systems\"
and then I get error:
"couldn't fork child process: No such file or directory"
The "c:\lisp\CFFI.asdf-install-tmp" is there after downloading

I really don't know where the problem is ?

For local files I tried all combinations of slashes (\\, \, /) in path name
to the package
but nothing works.

How can I check that some package is installed and/or loaded ?


From: East Wind on
On Mar 31, 3:04 pm, "Haris Bogdanovic" <fbogdano...(a)xnet.hr> wrote:
> I tried to install packages from the web like for example
> (asdf-install:install :cffi)
> Then I press 1 for system wide install
> Then it starts downloading and when it finshes it says
> "Downloading 182805 bytes fromhttp://common-lisp.net/project/cffi/releases/cffi_latest.tar.gz..."
> Then after pressing 0 for skip-gpg-check option it says
> "Installing c:\lisp\CFFI.asdf-install-tmp in
> C:\lisp\sbcl\site\,C:\lisp\sbcl\site-systems\"
> and then I get error:
> "couldn't fork child process: No such file or directory"
> The "c:\lisp\CFFI.asdf-install-tmp" is there after downloading
>
> I really don't know where the problem is ?
>
> For local files I tried all combinations of slashes (\\, \, /) in path name
> to the package
> but nothing works.
>
> How can I check that some package is installed and/or loaded ?

C:\lisp\sbcl\site\
C:\lisp\sbcl\site-systems\
do you have these directories?

From: Alex Mizrahi on
HB> How can I check that some package is installed and/or loaded ?

Just do not use asdf-install. As you see, it doesn't save your time, but
instead wastes it.
Download and unpack files manually and update asdf:*central-registry*
accordinly.
It takes maybe a minute or so. So what's the problem?

From: Haris Bogdanovic on
Yes, the directories are there.