Error while installing on ubuntu 12.04

[abhijithch]

Hi,
I got an error while installing on ubuntu 12.04 in the following method:
1. git clone git://github.com/JuliaLang/julia.git
2. julia
abhijith@abhijith-K55A:~/julia$ julia
fatal: error thrown and no exception handler available.
exec: error -5

However, upon installing through the source, i.e sudo add-apt-repository ppa:staticfloat/julianightlies .., there was no problem.

[nolta]

Could you elaborate on what you did between steps (1) and (2)? Does make cleanall fix the problem?

[staticfloat]

Had you already installed julia through apt-get? You need to run ./julia to launch the julia in the current directory, otherwise your shell will try to launch a julia stored in your $PATH, which probably doesn't exist unless you've tried to install julia through apt-get.

This problem has shown up once before, someone emailed me about it, and they said that after installing julia through the PPA and restarting their computer, everything worked fine. I'm not sure why you would ever need to restart, but it's at least something to keep in mind.

[vtjnash]

exec: error -5
I think this error occurs only when there was a problem loading libpcre.

[ViralBShah]

This was using the nightly ppa.

[ViralBShah]

Just to clarify, we were trying this out together. The ppa failed but building from source worked.

[staticfloat]

Intriguing. Could I get an strace log from trying to start up the PPA-built julia executable? That is, could you post the output of strace julia?

[ViralBShah]

@abhi123link Can you please try doing an apt-get upgrade followed by a reboot as mentioned in the above issue?

[nokome]

Hello. I had same error (exec: error -5) when using ppa:staticfloat/julianightlies with Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit. Doing a sudo apt-get upgrade as @ViralBShah suggested fixed it. Thanks. Now I can play!

[sharpobject]

Could sudo apt-get upgrade be added to the instructions at http://julialang.org/downloads/? As written they will produce this issue.

[ViralBShah]

Updated.