Re: Problems Installing io-1.2.0 Package in Windows 7

[Michael Goffioul]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 5:48 PM, bmgamm <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello,

I'm brand new to Octave, transitioning from MATALB. I am having problems
installing the io package (I've tried versions 1.0.18 and 1.2.0). I
installed the java package successfully but when I try to install the io
package the following error arises:

sprintf: invalid format specified
error: called from `post_install' in file
C:\Users\BrianG\AppData\Local\Temp\oct-19\io\post_install.m near line 12,
column 5
error: called from:
error:   C:\Program Files (x86)\Octave-3.6.2\share\octave\3.6.2\m\pkg\pkg.m
at line 869, column 5
error:   C:\Program Files (x86)\Octave-3.6.2\share\octave\3.6.2\m\pkg\pkg.m
at line 383, column 9

I have yet to find a similar instance of this problem reported in this forum
or any others. If someone has encountered this problem and has a solution,
or could direct me to a solution, I would be very appreciative. Thanks!

Looking at http://sourceforge.net/p/octave/code/11555/tree/trunk/octave-forge/main/io/post_install.m, it seems it's a bug. The format specifier %S is invalid and I suppose it should be %s instead (with lowercase). However, the fact that you reaching that part of the code may be the symptom of another problem.

Michael.