I am unable to use cargo to create a new project. When I execute 'cargo new guessinggame', it fails, and returns 'Failed to create package "guessinggame" at "home/runner/guessinggame"
Caused by:
could not determine the current user, please set $USER'
This also happens when I run 'cargo init' on an already extant directory. Does anybody know how to fix this?
Hi there!
Because of the inflexibility of language repls (for example, each Rust repl must have a main.rs in the repl directory at the top level), I tried this with a Polygott repl, and it seems to work.
The repl is here: https://repl.it/@ArchieMaclean/TestingStuff
Dependencies all work as well. Feel free to fork it, or just create a polygott repl at https://repl.it/languages/polygott and copy in the Makefile code (changing it to fit your need).
Please mark this as the answer if it solves your problem :)
Don’t use cargo on repl.it, use repl.it’s upm. (Meaning don’t install packages, they’re automatically installed for you) I generally find it’s just best to go with the flow. Also the reason you can’t install is
@Highwayman How do you have repl.it do that then? Just putting the import command in the file doesn't work, and I can't seem to find anything else on how to do it.
@kriv02 it doesn’t say anything in the docs? Here, let me check them..
@kriv02 yeah it doesn’t say anything about r in the docs either.. hm. How about we take a stab at that “$USER” problem first. Might as well I guess. I can try and look a little closer later on if we are still not getting anything.
@kriv02 ok so to fix the user thing, I think you can just configure the run button to run the r program as normal with cargo or however you do it, but also adding before that the command export USER="/home/runner/repl_name" where repl_name in this case is Testingstuff. To configure the run button, you must make a file called .replit and then type in that file run="command" where command is the things you want it to do on run.
@Highwayman That didn't work. The export command parses, but then cargo sends the same error message.
@kriv02 dam. maybe I got the placement wrong? Try ~/Testingstuff. Or maybe it’s something else..
because you can’t access home/runner/* because we are all confined to home/runner/repl_name in terms of read / write access.