Re: Octave packages installation

[Aurel Nicolae]

Hi Alexander & Marius

I have version 3.8.0 on my macbook. I cannot remember from which source I downloaded the binary files, as it was about a year ago.

I had to get some help from one my IT colleagues, as I wasn’t sure how to get this installation to work. So he probably had to do some of that patching that you mentioned. Before that I also needed to get Xcode installed on my macbook. Now I have Xcode version 6.1.

Currently the Octave application works fine on my machine running on Mac OS Yosemite 10.10.1.

I require the Symbolic and the Signal packages to be added please.

When I run this command to instal Symbolic from the Octave prompt: pkg install -forge symbolic

Then I get the following errors:

/usr/local/octave/3.8.0/bin/mkoctfile: line 512:  5797 Segmentation fault: 11  /usr/local/octave/3.8.0/bin/g++-mp-4.7 -c -fPIC -I/usr/local/octave/3.8.0/include/octave-3.8.0/octave/.. -I/usr/local/octave/3.8.0/include/octave-3.8.0/octave -I/usr/local/octave/3.8.0/include -pipe -Os -m64 -D_THREAD_SAFE -pthread symbols.cc -o symbols.o

make: *** [symbols.o] Error 139

mkoctfile -v    -c symbols.cc

/usr/local/octave/3.8.0/bin/g++-mp-4.7 -c -fPIC -I/usr/local/octave/3.8.0/include/octave-3.8.0/octave/.. -I/usr/local/octave/3.8.0/include/octave-3.8.0/octave -I/usr/local/octave/3.8.0/include -pipe -Os -m64 -D_THREAD_SAFE -pthread symbols.cc -o symbols.o

pkg: error running `make' for the symbolic package.

error: called from 'configure_make' in file /usr/local/octave/3.8.0/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/private/configure_make.m near line 82, column 9

error: called from:

error:   /usr/local/octave/3.8.0/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/private/install.m at line 199, column 5

error:   /usr/local/octave/3.8.0/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 394, column 9

When I try to instal Signal package with: pkg install -forge signal

Then i get the following dependencies problems:

error: the following dependencies were unsatisfied:

   signal needs control >= 2.4.5

 signal needs general >= 1.3.2

Can you advise me what I need to do please?

Thank you!

Kind regards,

Aurel “Howie" Nicolae
mobile: 083 440 7326
email: address@hidden
website: http://www.linkedin.com/in/aurelnicolae 

On 09 Jan 2015, at 12:08 AM, Alexander Hansen <address@hidden> wrote:

On Jan 8, 2015, at 2:02 PM, Marius Schamschula <address@hidden> wrote:

Aurel,

On Jan 8, 2015, at 9:17 AM, Aurel Nicolae <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi there,

I need some help with the installation of packages for Octave on Mac OS Yosemite.
I get a lot of errors when trying to install these. Who can assist me please?

Thank you!

Regards,

Kind regards,

Aurel “Howie" Nicolae
mobile: 083 440 7326
email: address@hidden
website: http://www.linkedin.com/in/aurelnicolae 

What version of octave?

How was octave installed? MacPorts, Homebrew or Fink?

What octave package(s) are you trying to install?

Marius
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Marius Schamschula

Or did you install Octave by some other means, such as a standalone binary or building it yourself from source?  Some of the Octave Forge packages require patching to build at all on OS X, and just using Octave’s “pkg install” won’t do the job.

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Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison