Re: Building/installing octave-forge from SVN

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 3:37 AM, Russell Haley <address@hidden> wrote:
> The README file in the SVN repo says there's supposed to be an INSTALL
> file, an autogen.sh, and/or a top level makefile.  I don't see any of these.
>
> What is the current procedure for building packages from the
> octave-forge SVN?
>
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Hi Russel,

There is no "octave-forge" to install. You can get packages from
octave-forge. The possible ways are (I assume you are in Linux)
1. Download the package from the web and install the compressed file
using from withing octave: pkg install <path-to-file>
2. From within octave run: pkg -forge install <package-you-want>
3. If you have checked out the repository you will find a function
releasePKG in the folder admin/. With this function you can create a
compressed file that can be installed following  step 1.

Hope this helps

Cheers