Re: Octave: nlopt package.

[Mike Miller]

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 17:16:28 +0200, Constantine Frangos wrote:
> 
> Dear Mike,
> 
> Thanks for the fast response and information - much appreciated.
> 
> Any assistance with the following would be helpful.
> 
> (1) I dont know where octave-nlopt is installed. How do I 
> determine this ? 
> 
> I tried: whereis nlopt, whereis octave-nlopt
> but no useful information was obtained.

As with any Debian package, dpkg -L.

> (I am assuming that the installed octave-nlopt 2.4.1 deb 
> package actually includes the base optimization software 
> package nlopt itself ?)

I see `libnlopt0` in the dependencies

  apt-cache show octave-nlopt | grep Depends

> (2) How do I access nlopt from the octave command line ?
> 
> octave:9> help nlopt
> error: help: 'nlopt' not found
> 
> Assume that I know the directory of nlopt. How do I add
> the nlopt directory name on the octave path ?

I don't know, I've never used it. The package metadata lists a web site,
maybe look there for some Octave usage information.

  apt-cache show octave-nlopt | grep Homepage
  Homepage: http://ab-initio.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/NLopt

-- 
mike