Re: pkg problems

[Terry Duell]

On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:44:39 +1100, Carnë Draug <address@hidden>  
wrote:

> On 25 November 2012 01:26, Terry Duell <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > Sorry to keep on with pkg issues, but just as one problem is fixed  
> > another
> > arises.
> >
> > I find that some of my recently installed packages via 'pkg install  
> > -forge
> > xxx' are shown as not loaded when I run 'pkg list'.
> > When I run, for example, 'pkg load signal', 'pkg list' shows that  
> > signal is
> > loaded, but a 'help pwelch' returns 'error: help: `pwelch' not found'.
> > If, after running 'pkg load signal' I run 'savepath', the problem still
> > persists, and 'path' returns...
> >
> > /home/terry/octave/signal-1.2.0/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-api-v48+
> >
> > as the only entry for signal.
> > If I manually run 'addpath ("/home/terry/octave/signal-1.2.0")', the  
> > 'help
> > pwelch' works as expected.
> >
> > Am I now seeing more pkg bugs, or are this behaviour due to me going  
> > about
> > things in the wrong way?
>
> Packages are no longer automatically loaded. You have to load them
> yourself. But you keep mentioning stuff from your .octaverc. Can you
> show us what do you have there?

Sure, below is a copy of my .octaverc.
Following on from my previous post (above), you will see  
'/home/terry/octave/signal-1.2.0', which, as I said,  I had to add  
manually.
But to return to my question, after originally loading signal, and running  
savepath, Octave still didn't know about signal functions until I manually  
added the signal path.

----------~/.octaverc-------------------
## Begin savepath auto-created section, do not edit
  addpath  
('/home/terry/octave/image-2.0.0/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-api-v48+:/home/terry/octave/signal-1.2.0/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-api-v48+:/home/terry/octave/optim-1.2.2/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-api-v48+:/home/terry/octave/linear-algebra-2.2.0/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-api-v48+:/home/terry/octave/specfun-1.1.0/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-api-v48+:/home/terry/octave/miscellaneous-1.2.0/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-api-v48+:/home/terry/octave/general-1.3.2/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-api-v48+:/home/terry/Myoctave:/home/terry/octave:/home/terry/octave/struct-1.0.10/packinfo:/home/terry/octave/struct-1.0.10/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-api-v48+:/home/terry/octave/gnuplot-1.0.1/packinfo:/home/terry/octave/odepkg-0.8.2/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-api-v48+:/home/terry/octave/java-1.2.9/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-api-v48+:/home/terry/octave/control-2.4.1/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-api-v48+:/home/terry/octave/io-1.0.20/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-api-v48+',  
'-begin');
## End savepath auto-created section

If packages no longer auto load, what is the recommended method of doing  
so, such that they are always loaded when octave is started, and the paths  
are saved in the .octaverc file?

Cheers,
--
Regards,
Terry Duell