Re: Unable to update control package

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

--- On Wed, 2013/4/17, Arnaud Miege wrote:
> I have the VS2010 installation of Octave 3.6.2 on my PC (running win XP SP2, 
> no admin rights). I am trying to update the control package as I would like 
> to try some of the new functions related to experimental data handling and 
> system identification. However, when I try to update the package from forge, 
> I get the following error message:
[snip]

VS2010 version does not include the compiler so that you cannot update (a) 
packages by pkg install command without installing MSVC2010. (Express Edition 
may be used.) 

It is perhaps hard work to update octave-forge package under the VS2010 version 
but you can try to do. Read carefully "Octave with Visual Studio"
on
http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_Windows



BTW,
Octave-3.6.4 MinGW version prepares the control-2.4.2 package.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20Windows%20binaries/Octave%203.6.4%20for%20Windows%20MinGW%20installer/

If you want use VS2010 version not MinGW, the experimental snapshot of 
development version is available. See the thread
http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Octave-3-7-2-Windows-VS2010-available-td4650194.html

This snapshot includes the control-2.4.2 package.  Note that octave starts with 
GUI frontend by default but is still in the experimental stage. If you are in 
trouble when using GUI, try CLI (Command-Line Interface) version.

Regards

Tatsuro