Re: Package installation difficulty

[Marco atzeri]

On 9/9/2011 6:39 PM, 2NinerRomeo wrote:
> I'm moving this from the thread:
> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/octave-3-4-0-and-octave-forge-20110226-for-cygwin-released-tt3336262.html
> octave 3.4.0 and octave-forge-20110226 for cygwin released
>
> In summary, I have attempted to install the control-2.1.55 package after
> downloading, which failed.
>
>   At Marco's suggestion, I have attempted moving the .gz package to /usr/src,
> changed the permissions to 666 and attempted the install with -nomanual and
> -verbose switches, which yielded the following output, which is exactly the
> same as the original errors, but interleaved with what I presume are
> scripted commands being echoed to the console:
>
> octave:2>  pkg install -noauto -verbose /usr/src/control-2.1.55.tar.gz
> make: *** /tmp/oct-2899b8.1/control/src: No such file or directory.  Stop.
> mkdir (/tmp/oct-2899b8.1)
> untar (/usr/src/control-2.1.55.tar.gz, /tmp/oct-2899b8.1)

have you checked tmp is accessible and control-2.1.55.tar.gz is not 
damaged ?

ls -l /tmp
tar -tjf control-2.1.55.tar.gz


> 'make' returned the following error:
> error: called from `pkg>configure_make' in file
> /usr/share/octave/3.4.2/m/pkg/pkg.m near line 1339, column 9
> error: called from:
> error:   /usr/share/octave/3.4.2/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 790, column 5
> error:   /usr/share/octave/3.4.2/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 361, column 9
>
> Marco also pointed out that the control-2.1.52 is part of the octave-forge
> package, which I installed from the cygwin installer, and checked as
> instructed, which appears to show the installation
>
> $ cygcheck -c -d |grep octave
> octave                  3.4.2-1
> octave-devel            3.4.2-1
> octave-doc              3.4.2-1
> octave-forge            20110730-1
>
> additionally a "ver" command also shows the presence of control-2.1.52
> ...
>        combinatorics  |   1.0.9 |
> /usr/share/octave/packages/combinatorics-1.0.9
>              control  |  2.1.52 | /usr/share/octave/packages/control-2.1.52
>       data-smoothing  |   1.2.0 |
> /usr/share/octave/packages/data-smoothing-1.2.0
> ...
>
> however, attempting to access a control function, for example 'tf' gets a
> "not found" response.

on cygwin no package is automatically loaded, so
you need the command
  pkg load control

before using the control functions.

See "help pkg"

Regards
Marco