Beginner: can't set up Q on mac

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Hi there,

I am having trouble setting up Q.

I am using a mac and downloaded the 34bit package. 

I then run q/m32/q in my downloads folder on the terminal as mentioned in the kx tutorial (https://code.kx.com/v2/learn/install/macos/).

It returns 

KDB+ 3.6 2019.04.02 Copyright (C) 1993-2019 Kx Systems

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Menlo; color: #ffffff; background-color: #000000}p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Menlo; color: #ffffff; background-color: #000000; min-height: 13.0px}span.s1 {font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures}

m32/ 4()core 4096MB owner iglorieux.home 192.168.1.18 NONEXPIRE  

'/Users/owner/q/q.k. OS reports: No such file or directory

0::

`/Users/owner/q/q.k

So I can’t figure out how to have the ‘q)’ in terminal to start coding.

Also, can we use IDEs to run Q or is it only in the terminal?

Thanks in advance, 

Victor

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the error indicates that q can’t find the file: q.k

this is located in the extracted zip file.

once you export the QHOME environment variable to the directory containing the q.k file, running q should no longer throw this exception.

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Hi Victor,

With regards to an IDE, see here: https://code.kx.com/developer/getting-started/

Note:
“To install and use Developer, a user must have installed 64bit kdb+ 3.4+ and set the required q environment variables (QHOME, QLIC, append q to PATH)”



And..
“Users can obtain a free copy of 64bit kdb+ for personal, non-commercial use from https://ondemand.kx.com/.”

Thanks,
Ian




On Friday, September 27, 2019 at 3:56:46 PM UTC+1, Victor wrote:

Hi there,

I am having trouble setting up Q.

I am using a mac and downloaded the 34bit package. 

I then run q/m32/q in my downloads folder on the terminal as mentioned in the kx tutorial (https://code.kx.com/v2/learn/install/macos/).

It returns 

KDB+ 3.6 2019.04.02 Copyright (C) 1993-2019 Kx Systems

m32/ 4()core 4096MB owner iglorieux.home 192.168.1.18 NONEXPIRE  

'/Users/owner/q/q.k. OS reports: No such file or directory

0::

`/Users/owner/q/q.k

So I can’t figure out how to have the ‘q)’ in terminal to start coding.

Also, can we use IDEs to run Q or is it only in the terminal?

Thanks in advance, 

Victor

4

in addition to the many editor integrations for kdb+: https://code.kx.com/v2/interfaces/#editor-integrations

there are also many IDEs: https://code.kx.com/v2/learn/startingkdb/

5

Thanks a lot Ian, I appreciate your help!

6

Thanks a lot

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Perfect, thanks a lot. All I needed was to copy-paste the downloaded q file in /users/owner/.