Re: Octave packages installation

[Aurel Nicolae]

Hi Alexander,

Oh that is a bit worrying. So what package do you recommend instead of Symbolic. I’ve seen some posts recommending Maxima, but i struggle installing that as well…

Yes the signal install does say what the dependencies are but, when i try install those, i get the following:

>> pkg install -forge control

error: element number 1 undefined in return list

error: called from:

error:   /usr/local/octave/3.8.0/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/private/get_forge_pkg.m at line 40, column 14

error:   /usr/local/octave/3.8.0/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/private/get_forge_download.m at line 26, column 12

error:   /usr/local/octave/3.8.0/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 385, column 29

pkg install -forge general

error: element number 1 undefined in return list

error: called from:

error:   /usr/local/octave/3.8.0/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/private/get_forge_pkg.m at line 40, column 14

error:   /usr/local/octave/3.8.0/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/private/get_forge_download.m at line 26, column 12

error:   /usr/local/octave/3.8.0/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 385, column 29

Am I doing something wrong?

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 3:57 PM, Alexander Hansen <address@hidden> wrote:

On Jan 8, 2015, at 11:04 PM, Aurel Nicolae <address@hidden> wrote:

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 

signal is telling you exactly what to do:  install the control and general packages.

symbolic doesn’t show up in my “pkg list -forge” output for Octave-3.8.1, and I know it hasn’t been updated in a while, so it may well not work with 3.8.x.

-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison