Re: pkg install

[Marco Atzeri]

On 03/06/2017 07:55, Thomas D. Dean wrote:
> I have a local package with a packinfo directory containing
>
> > ls packinfo
> COPYING  DESCRIPTION  INDEX
>
> The tar.gz file also contains these files
>
> octave:77> pkg install geographiclib-1.0.0.tar.gz
> package is missing file: COPYING
> error: called from
>     install>verify_directory at line 335 column 7
>     install at line 109 column 9
>     pkg at line 394 column 9
> octave:77> ls geographiclib-1.0.0/packinfo/
> COPYING  DESCRIPTION  INDEX
>
> What am I doing wrong???
>
> Tom Dean

I am not aware that geographiclib is a octave package.

packinfo is not in the usual structure of a
octave source package:

$ tar -tf io-2.4.7.tar.gz
io-2.4.7/
io-2.4.7/COPYING
io-2.4.7/DESCRIPTION
io-2.4.7/INDEX
io-2.4.7/NEWS
io-2.4.7/doc/
io-2.4.7/doc/READ-ODS.html
io-2.4.7/doc/READ-XLS.html
io-2.4.7/inst/
io-2.4.7/inst/__exit_io__.m
io-2.4.7/inst/__init_io__.m