Re: Installing Parallel package with Mac OS X and Fink

[Ben Abbott]

> On Nov 7, 2014, at 12:38 AM, mpender <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to install the parallel package with Octave under Mac OS X
> (Mavericks 10.9.4).  I tried the binary package installer first, but decided
> to uninstall Octave 3.8.0 and install Fink and then install Octave 3.8.2
> instead.  
> 
> Earlier today I realized that I also needed to install the octave382-dev
> package to get mkoctfile working, so I've got that part ready now.  But now
> I have a new problem:
> 
> octave:2> pkg install -forge parallel
> error: urlwrite: unable to open file
> error: called from:
> error:   /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 386, column 23
> octave:2> 
> 
> I'm not sure what to interpret from this urlwrite problem.  Does this error
> message make sense to anyone?

I don't know about the urlwrite problem, but the proper procedure for 
installing Octave forge packages when using Octave via the Fink package manager 
is to also install the package using Fink. I think the Fink package name you'll 
need is is parallel-oct382.

        fink install parallel-oct382

Ben