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Tool for easily installing and managing multiple versions of the Nim programming language.
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From Mr. Chris Banda, issue with unxz for choosenim-0.8.2_macosx_amd64 #290

Closed StefanSalewski closed 2 years ago

StefanSalewski commented 2 years ago

Dear Sir,

unfortunately I am not the right person for problems related to problems during the install process of the Nim compiler environment.

I stated in my book very clearly, that the book will not really try to explain the install process -- for various reasons.

You are using the tool choosenim on macosx_amd64:

One obvious problem seems to be, that the program unxz is not available. I can not tell you how you can install that tool on macosx, but it is from this package: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils

I will forward your message to the choosenim github issue tracker, see https://github.com/dom96/choosenim in the hope that Mr. Picheta can tell you more details. Generally, for problems with the Nim install process you should try to use one of these issue trackers:

https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues https://github.com/dom96/choosenim https://forum.nim-lang.org/

If you are not able to contact these destinations, I am willing to forward your requests.

Best wishes,

Dr. Stefan Salewski.

On Thu, 2021-12-09 at 19:41 +0200, Chris Banda wrote:

Hello Dr Stefan,

I trust this email finds you well. I'm trying to install Nim on my machine, this script is not working, I keep getting an error message.

~ % curl https://nim-lang.org/choosenim/init.sh -sSf | sh

choosenim-init: Downloading choosenim-0.8.2_macosx_amd64

  • Prompt: *Can choosenim record and send anonymised telemetry data? [y/n]

  • ... *Anonymous aggregate user analytics allow us to prioritise

  • ... *fixes and features based on how, where and when people use Nim.

  • ... *For more details see: https://goo.gl/NzUEPf.

  • Answer: *y

Downloading Nim 1.6.0 from nim-lang.org

[##################################################] 100.0% 0kb/s

  • Extracting *nim-1.6.0.tar.xz

  • Tip: *1 messages have been suppressed, use --verbose to show them.

  • Error: *Execution failed with exit code 127

  • ... *Command: unxz /Users/tm/.choosenim/downloads/nim- 1.6.0.tar.xz

  • ... *Output: /bin/sh: unxz: command not found

dom96 commented 2 years ago

Need more info, what macOS version is this? Newer versions should have unxz bundled afaik

tvooo commented 2 years ago

Just tried to install nim on macOS Monterey, 12.1 (21C52), and ran into the same issue. I have the XCode CLI tools installed. Looks like latest macOS don't ship with it anymore.

I installed xz via Homebrew and after that the nim installation worked fine. Maybe worth adding a note to the install docs.