Nimble installation fails

[HugoP707]

Its been a while since the last commit, pls dont tell me nimtorch is dead, its wonderful, and i want to start using it, and libraries like this would pump up nim's popularity, are you leaving it for a while but planning on taking it back or just completely abandoned?

[sinkingsugar]

Well, I've stopped using it internally for now.
Nevertheless PRs are welcome but I cannot really give it any precious time for now without a reason basically.

[HugoP707]

i am having problems trying to install it with
Nimble install torch
Reading official package list
Downloading https://github.com/fragcolor-xyz/nimtorch using git
Cloning latest tagged version: v0.2.3
Error: Could not read package info file in C:\Users\porra\AppData\Local\Temp\nimble_8956\githubcom_fragcolorxyznimtorch\torch.nimble;
... Reading as ini file failed with:
... Invalid section: .
... Evaluating as NimScript file failed with:
... C:\Users\porra\AppData\Local\Temp\nimble_8956\githubcom_fragcolorxyznimtorch\config.nims(1, 17) Error: cannot open file: fragments/buildandrun
... printPkgInfo() failed.

[mratsim]

That's nimble not nimtorch.

1. Nimble had a change with configuration last summer and from the error you may be using an old nimble which conflicts with the new one and gives similar errors: Invalid section: . nim-lang/nimble#665
2. The new nimble can still error but after the package is installed:
   fails to evaluate .nimble file nim-lang/nimble#696

[HugoP707]

Hello, sorry for the slow response,
i have nimble up to date (v: 0.11.0) and nothing changes, do i have to download another branch?
Pls help

[sinkingsugar]

Please try https://github.com/fragcolor-xyz/nimtorch#semi-manual-way or https://github.com/fragcolor-xyz/nimtorch#semi-manual-way, nimble is not supported as won't include pytorch required binaries.

[pkphilip]

I had the same issue with a number of packages including nimx. However, I had Nim installed in my home directory on Linux Mint 1.9.2. (~/Tools/Nim)

I do have the nim binary in my path and I am able to run it directly. However, it seems like nimble does not use nim from the path.

I fixed this issue by symlinking nim binary to /usr/local/bin/
sudo ln -s ~/Tools/Nim/bin/nim /usr/local/bin