Re: Problem with installing packages in Octave

[Quentin Spencer]

address@hidden wrote:
> Thank you Søren for your instructions. I installed the octave-devel 
> package from Fedora's yum and executed the same pkg install commands 
> in Octave. But this time it returned the following error:
>
>
> error: dotexceptnewline: regexp not implemented in this version
>
> This time it seems to be some problem with regular expressions now... 
> I'm sure something's missing but don't know what it is.
>
> Well still many thanks.
>
> And still expecting your suggestions...


Please note that the latest octave-forge really requires something more 
recent than 2.9.9. There is an older octave-forge package in Fedora that 
was compiled to go with the 2.9.9 release.

Quentin