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Install fails due to missing dependency "darwin" #522

Closed DestyNova closed 10 months ago

DestyNova commented 10 months ago

I've tried installing nimx with Nim 1.6.12 and 2.0.0, and it errors out in the same place due to a dependency on the package darwin which can't be found. Maybe it was removed from the Nimble package repo?

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Downloading https://github.com/yglukhov/plists using git
  Verifying dependencies for plists@0.2.0
    Reading official package list
   Checking for darwin@any version
 Installing darwin@any version
    Reading official package list
    Prompt: darwin not found in any local packages.json, check internet for updated packages? [y/N]
y
    Answer: Downloading official package list
     Trying http://google.com
   Warning: Downloaded packages.json file is invalid, discarding.
     Trying http://google.com/404
   Warning: Could not download: 404 Not Found
     Trying http://irclogs.nim-lang.org/packages.json
     Trying http://nim-lang.org/nimble/packages.json
    Success Package list downloaded.
    Reading official package list
     Error: Package not found.

Is there a way to skip this dependency since the name "darwin" indicates something specific to Mac OS X, which I don't need?

yglukhov commented 10 months ago

Maybe it was removed from the Nimble package repo?

I'm pretty sure it's there. Might be some problem with your nim/nimble installation? In any case this is better reported in the nimble repo.

Is there a way to skip this dependency since the name "darwin" indicates something specific to Mac OS X, which I don't need?

You could just clone nimx locally, patch its nimble file accordingly and nimble install from within the directory.

DestyNova commented 10 months ago

Maybe it was removed from the Nimble package repo?

I'm pretty sure it's there. Might be some problem with your nim/nimble installation? In any case this is better reported in the nimble repo.

Thanks for that pointer. It's there in the Git blob, but not in the published version it seems.

Update: But it is in other places. Even though I had a recent version of Nimble, I think it was using a really old configuration file and there was some backward incompatibility. Deleting ~/.config/nimble/nimble.ini and running nimble update fixed it.

Is there a way to skip this dependency since the name "darwin" indicates something specific to Mac OS X, which I don't need?

You could just clone nimx locally, patch its nimble file accordingly and nimble install from within the directory.

Good to know :+1: