Re: installing pkg under octave!

[Oliver Heimlich]

Nice to hear.

Happy hacking!

Am 11. Dezember 2017 08:40:14 MEZ schrieb Ashraf Mousa <address@hidden>:

Dear Oliver

The problem is solved after I changed the permissions on the temp dir.

Cheers

 

Prof. Ashraf ElKutb Mousa

Prof. of Geodesy, Senior Geodesist

Crustal Movement lab

Geodynamic Dept.

National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, Helwan, Cairo

Mob. : +002-01061087313

Tel (home): +002-22-5187001

Tel (Work): +002-22-5541100 (ext. 347)

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On Monday, December 11, 2017 9:10 AM, Ashraf Mousa <address@hidden> wrote:

Dear Oliver

Thanks alot for your kind support.

I have did as you said

and this is what I get:

>> dbstop unpack 233

ans =  233

>> pkg install -local -forge netcdf

stopped in C:\Octave\OCTAVE~1.1\share\octave\4.2.1\m\miscellaneous\unpack.m at line 233

233:   s = stat (dir);

debug>

Please let me know how to debug (i.e. what are the command

Cheers

Ashraf

  

Prof. Ashraf ElKutb Mousa

Prof. of Geodesy, Senior Geodesist

Crustal Movement lab

Geodynamic Dept.

National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, Helwan, Cairo

Mob. : +002-01061087313

Tel (home): +002-22-5187001

Tel (Work): +002-22-5541100 (ext. 347)

Fax (Work): +002-22-5548020

On Sunday, December 10, 2017 2:12 PM, Oliver Heimlich <address@hidden> wrote:

Dear Ashraf,

the command that you used should have worked perfectly. I have tested it
on Windows 7, but it worked on my machine. I have no Windows 10
environment to check with.

It looks like Octave has no permission to write into your own users
temporary directory, which seems strange. Do you run Octave with
elevated privileges?

You could debug step-by-step through your package installation process
to find the root cause. Please try:

>> dbstop unpack 233 # place a break point before the error
>> pkg install -local -forge netcdf

Package installation will then halt right before the error. Please debug
step-by-step and verify in Windows Explorer whether creation of the
temporary directory has happened (with mkdir) and then check the folder
permissions of the temporary directory. This will help us to identify
the problem.

Best
Oliver

On 10.12.2017 11:53, Ashraf Mousa wrote:
> Dear Oliver
> I have tried the following command:
> pkg install -local -forge netcdf
>
> However I get the same error about permision
> *C:\Users\DR3230~1.ASH\AppData\Local\Temp\oct-nJLy6R: Permission de*
> *nied*
> *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*
> *
> *
> *Did I used a wrong command?*
> *Shall I re-install octave using admin?*
> *Any other ideas.*
> *Thanks alot*
> *Cheers*
>  
> Prof. Ashraf ElKutb Mousa
> Prof. of Geodesy, Senior Geodesist
> Crustal Movement lab
> Geodynamic Dept.
> National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, Helwan, Cairo
> Mob. : +002-01061087313
> Tel (home): +002-22-5187001
> Tel (Work): +002-22-5541100 (ext. 347)
> Fax (Work): +002-22-5548020
>
>
> On Wednesday, December 6, 2017 5:03 PM, Oliver Heimlich
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> 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
>    Mob. : +002-01061087313
>    Tel (home): +002-22-5187001
>    Tel (Work): +002-22-5541100 (ext. 347)
>    Fax (Work): +002-22-5548020
>
>
>