Re: error: feval: function `unimplemented' not found

[Ben Abbott]

On Mar 4, 2013, at 9:01 AM, eric herbert wrote:
>>>> hello
>>>> 
>>>> I'm running ubuntu 12.04 and I'm trying to replace my compiled from source 
>>>> octave3.6.2 by the already compiled 3.6.3 made available in the Mike 
>>>> Miller's repository.
>>>> 
>>>> After having uninstalled 3.6.2,
>>>> $ sudo apt-get install octave 
>>>> leads to the error message
>>>> error: feval: function `unimplemented' not found
>>>> 
>>>> and an useless octave prompt:
>>>> 
>>>> octave:1> ls
>>>> error: feval: function `unimplemented' not found
>>>> 
>>>> I checked my .octaverc and following the bug report  (691311) I checked my 
>>>> liboctave1 version that is 3.6.3 which should work with octave3.6.3.
>>>> 
>>>> From now I I'm confused. Any idea ?
>>>> 
>>>> thanks
>>> 
>>> It appears your Octave m-file path is broken.  You can verify by typing 
>>> "path" from Octave's command prompt (maybe it still points to the octave 
>>> 3.6.2 install?).
>>> 
>>> Check your ~/.octaverc to be sure it isn't setting your path that doesn't 
>>> work.
>>> 
>>> You can try to restore Octave's default path to see if that fixes your 
>>> problem.
>>> 
>>>         restoredefaultpath
>>> 
>>> Ben
>> 
>> yes I think a path somewhere is broken ! I m
>> 
>> path command points to :
>> octave:3> path
>> 
>> 
>> Octave's search path contains the following directories:
>> 
>> .
>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/octave/3.6.3/site/oct/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/octave/site/oct/api-v48+/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/octave/site/oct/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/octave/3.6.3/oct/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>> 
>> and 
>> octave:4> restoredefaultpath
>> ans = 
>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/octave/3.6.3/site/oct/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/octave/site/oct/api-v48+/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/octave/site/oct/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/octave/3.6.3/oct/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>> octave:5> ls
>> 
>> error: feval: function `unimplemented' not found
>> 
>> same thing after stop and start octave
>> 
>> I already tried to edit and remove .octaverc. That does not change nothing.
> 
> sorry my mail was sent before I finished it !
> I tried 
> sudo find / -name *3.6.2* or *3-6-2* 
> this version appears to be completely removed. 
> Every path that could point to an older version of octave was removed.
> 
> 2013/3/4 eric herbert <address@hidden>

Looks to me like something is wrong with the build.

Any reason you're not building Octave yourself?

        http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/octave-3.6.4.tar.gz

Ben