Re: Octave not working, cygwin.

[Stephen Rogerson]

[sent this ages ago - just noticed I sent it to wrong place :-( ]

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 09:21:54 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:


>The known problem is with getting plots; but it isn't really a problem.  It is
>just that you have to have an X server running to get plots from gnuplot. 
>Please follow the instructions in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/octave-2.1.73.README.
>

Ah!  RTFM -  it helps if you know where it is. Thanks Jim this works just fine.

>As for octave not starting, you haven't provided much information to go on. 
>Please be sure you are logged into cygwin as a user, and you are sitting at a
>bash prompt before you issue the octave command.  If this doesn't help, what
>does the command "which octave" at the bash prompt produce?  It should output
>"/usr/bin/octave".  If it doesn't, it is likely your install did not complete
>properly; use cygwin's setup.exe program to remove and reinstall octave.
>

The only odd thing is that when cygwin starts, it does not take me to my home
directory, my other installations work as expected.

Here is a transcript from invoking cygwin.

bash-3.1$ pwd
/usr/bin
bash-3.1$ cd
bash-3.1$ pwd
/home/steve
bash-3.1$ octave
bash-3.1$ octave -v
bash-3.1$ /usr/bin/octave-2.1.73.exe
bash-3.1$ which octave
/usr/bin/octave
bash-3.1$


I use cygwin for other things ,eg ncftp, which works fine. 

I uninstalled and re-installed octave before I posted originality - it had no
effect.


Steve

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