Re: Octave 3.6.2 fails at end of script

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 1:45 AM, Terry Duell <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:32:57 +1000, Dmitri A. Sergatskov
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
>> Yes. And my guess is that you have installed (compiled) image package
>> against the version of octave that came with Fedora originally.
>> The Fedora's octave has since been updated to a newer version, and
>> you should recompile all your self-compiled octave-forge packages against
>> it.
>
>
> OK, I uninstalled image-1.0.15...which then disappeared but Octave gave a
> weird message like some files may not be installed, and nothing else.
> I then did a 'pkg install -forge image', which gave a huge number of errors,
> mostly "file not found" stuff which was blatantly wrong as the files it
> referred to were there, and it all looked like it was all installed in the
> end.
> Trying my test again produces a result, as previous, but octave still
> segfaults.
> So, again, I'm not sure how to approach this. Something seems out of kilter
> with the pkg install which might be the cause, but how to best go about a
> proper/clean setup of forge packages?
>
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Regards,
> Terry Duell

Fedora installed packages into ~/octave directory.
You can just purge the entire image sub-directory that is there.
(You may also want to clean up ~/.octaverc appropriately.)

Then you can do "pkg install" thing again.

Frankly, I would recommend using rpm packages when
they are available...

Dmitri.
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