Aha, so I'm using julia on a computer cluster therefore I won't have 
administrator rights which I would need to run the sudo command, am I 
right? Is there anyway round this or do I need to get in touch with cluster 
admin team?

Thanks for your help

On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 15:03:54 UTC, Isaiah wrote:
>
> sudo yum install gettext-devel
>
>
> Can you run this command directly?
>
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Marc Williams <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to install Cairo so that I can draw to PDF using Gadfly. I 
>> keep getting this error message when trying to build Cairo. I've tried 
>> deleting the package folder and downloading everything again but get the 
>> same message. I'm using Scientific Linux 6.2 and Julia 0.3.3.
>>
>> Thanks for your help
>>
>> Marc
>>
>>
>> julia> Pkg.add("Cairo")
>>
>> INFO: Installing BinDeps v0.3.7
>>
>> INFO: Installing Cairo v0.2.21
>>
>> INFO: Installing Color v0.3.15
>>
>> INFO: Installing FixedPointNumbers v0.0.6
>>
>> INFO: Installing SHA v0.0.3
>>
>> INFO: Installing URIParser v0.0.3
>>
>> INFO: Building Cairo
>>
>> Installing dependency gettext-devel via `sudo yum install gettext-devel`:
>>
>> ==========================================================================================[
>>  
>> ERROR: Cairo 
>> ]===========================================================================================
>>
>> could not spawn `sudo yum install gettext-devel`: no such file or 
>> directory (ENOENT)
>>
>> while loading /data/home/mpx155/.julia/v0.3/Cairo/deps/build.jl, in 
>> expression starting on line 144
>>
>>
>> =====================================================================================================================================================================================================
>>
>
>

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