Re: pkg install hangs

[Kai Torben Ohlhus]

On 6/7/19 6:29 PM, S Crombie wrote:
> I am running Octave 5.1.0 in Windows 7 and trying to install the image
> acquisition package but this always hangs and never completes.
> 
> I have used 
> 
>         pkg install -verbose image-acquisition-0.2.2.tar.gz
> 
> and I can see from the verbose output that the install is getting stuck
> after the untar command.
> 
> Here is a segment from install.m which is used in the pkg process. I have
> added in a couple of printf statements for debugging
> 
>         ## Uncompress the package.
>         if (verbose)
>           printf ("untar (%s, %s)\n", tgz, tmpdir);
>         endif
>         untar (tgz, tmpdir);
>         if (verbose)
>           printf ("untar completed");
>         endif
> 
>         ## Get the name of the directories produced by tar.
>         if (verbose)
>           printf ("Getting directory list");
>         endif
>         
>         [dirlist, err, msg] = readdir (tmpdir);
> 
> When I run the install it prints "untar completed" but never prints "Getting
> directory list" although it looks to me as if these are consecutive items.
> 
> I would be grateful for any ideas as to why this is not working.
> 
> Thanks
> 
The image acquisition package does not work on MS Windows.  Please see
the previous discussion:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-octave/2019-05/msg00201.html

HTH,
Kai