Re: installing pkg under octave!

[Oliver Heimlich]

Hi,

I can't check in detail whether this causes your issue right now. On Windows the most frequent issue is that the normal user account can't install packages globally. 

Please try pkg install with the -local option, which installs the package in your user profile, which should not fail because of file system permissions.

HTH
Oliver Heimlich

Am 6. Dezember 2017 12:54:13 MEZ schrieb Ashraf Mousa <address@hidden>:

Dear octave users

I am running windows 10 64 bit.

I installed octave 4.2.1 with no problem.

My problem is that I can not update pkgs nor installing new ones.

Here are examples of what I get :

1- command (pkg install -forge netcdf)

C:\Users\DR3230~1.ASH\AppData\Local\Temp\oct-YmhPqa: Permission denied

error: called from

    unpack at line 244 column 5

    untar at line 47 column 5

    install at line 81 column 9

    pkg at line 394 column 9

 2- command (pkg install netcdf-1.0.11.tar.gz) 

[Note that I used this command after downloading the pkg manually and I changed the dir to where I put the downloaded file]

C:\Users\DR3230~1.ASH\AppData\Local\Temp\oct-UiIKXz: Permission denied

error: called from

    unpack at line 244 column 5

    untar at line 47 column 5

    install at line 81 column 9

    pkg at line 394 column 9

3- command (pkg update)

C:\Users\DR3230~1.ASH\AppData\Local\Temp\oct-EzApRv: Permission denied

error: called from

    unpack at line 244 column 5

    untar at line 47 column 5

    install at line 81 column 9

    pkg at line 394 column 9

    pkg at line 552 column 11

Hope to receive some detailed help

best regards

Yours

Prof. Ashraf ElKutb Mousa

Prof. of Geodesy, Senior Geodesist

Crustal Movement lab

Geodynamic Dept.

National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, Helwan, Cairo

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