error during instantiate

[Thomas-Ulrich]

I tried the instruction in the read me and got:

(base) ulrich@ulrich-ThinkPad-T490s:~/SeisSol/Sampler$ export JULIA_NUM_THREADS=4
(base) ulrich@ulrich-ThinkPad-T490s:~/SeisSol/Sampler$ julia
               _
   _       _ _(_)_     |  Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org
  (_)     | (_) (_)    |
   _ _   _| |_  __ _   |  Type "?" for help, "]?" for Pkg help.
  | | | | | | |/ _` |  |
  | | |_| | | | (_| |  |  Version 1.4.1
 _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_|  |  Ubuntu ⛬  julia/1.4.1+dfsg-1
|__/                   |

(@v1.4) pkg> 

(@v1.4) pkg> activate .
 Activating environment at `~/SeisSol/Sampler/Project.toml`

(SAMPLER) pkg> instantiate
   Updating registry at `~/.julia/registries/General`
   Updating git-repo `https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General.git`
ERROR: TypeError: in typeassert, expected VersionNumber, got Pkg.Types.VersionSpec
Stacktrace:
 [1] load_urls(::Pkg.Types.Context, ::Array{Pkg.Types.PackageSpec,1}) at /build/julia-98cBbp/julia-1.4.1+dfsg/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.4/Pkg/src/Operations.jl:456
 [2] #download_source#39 at /build/julia-98cBbp/julia-1.4.1+dfsg/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.4/Pkg/src/Operations.jl:632 [inlined]
 [3] download_source at /build/julia-98cBbp/julia-1.4.1+dfsg/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.4/Pkg/src/Operations.jl:631 [inlined]
 [4] instantiate(::Pkg.Types.Context; manifest::Nothing, update_registry::Bool, verbose::Bool, platform::Pkg.BinaryPlatforms.Linux, kwargs::Base.Iterators.Pairs{Union{},Union{},Tuple{},NamedTuple{(),Tuple{}}}) at /build/julia-98cBbp/julia-1.4.1+dfsg/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.4/Pkg/src/API.jl:820
 [5] instantiate(::Pkg.Types.Context) at /build/julia-98cBbp/julia-1.4.1+dfsg/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.4/Pkg/src/API.jl:748
 [6] #instantiate#116 at /build/julia-98cBbp/julia-1.4.1+dfsg/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.4/Pkg/src/API.jl:744 [inlined]
 [7] instantiate() at /build/julia-98cBbp/julia-1.4.1+dfsg/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.4/Pkg/src/API.jl:744
 [8] do_cmd!(::Pkg.REPLMode.Command, ::REPL.LineEditREPL) at /build/julia-98cBbp/julia-1.4.1+dfsg/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.4/Pkg/src/REPLMode/REPLMode.jl:400
 [9] do_cmd(::REPL.LineEditREPL, ::String; do_rethrow::Bool) at /build/julia-98cBbp/julia-1.4.1+dfsg/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.4/Pkg/src/REPLMode/REPLMode.jl:381
 [10] do_cmd at /build/julia-98cBbp/julia-1.4.1+dfsg/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.4/Pkg/src/REPLMode/REPLMode.jl:376 [inlined]
 [11] (::Pkg.REPLMode.var"#24#27"{REPL.LineEditREPL,REPL.LineEdit.Prompt})(::REPL.LineEdit.MIState, ::Base.GenericIOBuffer{Array{UInt8,1}}, ::Bool) at /build/julia-98cBbp/julia-1.4.1+dfsg/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.4/Pkg/src/REPLMode/REPLMode.jl:542
 [12] #invokelatest#1 at ./essentials.jl:712 [inlined]
 [13] invokelatest at ./essentials.jl:711 [inlined]
 [14] run_interface(::REPL.Terminals.TextTerminal, ::REPL.LineEdit.ModalInterface, ::REPL.LineEdit.MIState) at /build/julia-98cBbp/julia-1.4.1+dfsg/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.4/REPL/src/LineEdit.jl:2354
 [15] run_frontend(::REPL.LineEditREPL, ::REPL.REPLBackendRef) at /build/julia-98cBbp/julia-1.4.1+dfsg/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.4/REPL/src/REPL.jl:1055
 [16] run_repl(::REPL.AbstractREPL, ::Any) at /build/julia-98cBbp/julia-1.4.1+dfsg/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.4/REPL/src/REPL.jl:206
 [17] (::Base.var"#764#766"{Bool,Bool,Bool,Bool})(::Module) at ./client.jl:383
 [18] #invokelatest#1 at ./essentials.jl:712 [inlined]
 [19] invokelatest at ./essentials.jl:711 [inlined]
 [20] run_main_repl(::Bool, ::Bool, ::Bool, ::Bool, ::Bool) at ./client.jl:367
 [21] exec_options(::Base.JLOptions) at ./client.jl:305
 [22] _start() at ./client.jl:484

[mojomex]

Hi, can you try to upgrade to Julia 1.6?
It seems that the internal way that version numbers are represented in Julia has changed.

[Thomas-Ulrich]

ok, that works with 1.6.3, thx!
Maybe you should precise it in the readme?