Re: Help-octave Digest, Vol 68, Issue 71

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Joe Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> I saved the .deb file from the link you provided.   I then ran
>
> sudo dpkg -i octave.....deb
>
> Again, I have no idea what I am doing so this is all a guess on my part
> without having detailed instructions.
>
> It seems to create a directory under the /usr/share area.    If I run
> QtOctave, it still uses the old Octave.  So I manually tried to force the
> link for Octave.  This seems to allow QtOctave to find the new version, but
> there must be more to it.  When I check the version, it shows all the
> packages I had installed with the older version.  When I tried to run a m
> file that uses a package, it fails.    Any details on how to install this
> version of Octave would be helpful.   Again, I am not a UNIX user or a
> programmer, so any details would be great.  Thanks
>
>
>
> From: Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden>
> To: Joe Smith <address@hidden>
> Cc: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 2:32 PM
> Subject: Re: Help-octave Digest, Vol 68, Issue 71
>
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Joe Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Mike,
>>> I am glad to hear it worked for you. I have never tried to compile for
>>> 64bits, so I wouldn't be able to help you. I am forwarding your e-mail
>>> to the octave-help mailing list, maybe somebody there can give you
>>> some advice.
>>>
>>> A colleague told me today that he managed to compile 3.4.3 for Ubuntu
>>> 10.04 64bits, so I will ask him tomorrow to prepare a deb package.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
>>> -----
>>> PhD Student
>>> University of Z?rich
>>> http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/
>>>
>>>Hi Mike,
>>>My colleague kindly prepared a package using checkinstall for Ubuntu
>>>10.04 64bits.
>>>Please try it out
>>>http://ubuntuone.com/4sGNUuh9ykZdadEX0QPtY2
>>>
>>>md5 = 12269c3caee06b0a3fbd74006c7074a4
>>>
>>>--
>>>M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
>>>-----
>>>PhD Student
>>>University of Z?rich
>>>http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/
>> Thanks for these posts!  I would be very interested in knowing the details
>> of how this was built.   I tried the link provided but it does not appear
>> valid.
>>
>>
>>
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>
> Hi Joe,
>
> The link, as far as I can tell, is working.
> the package was created using checkinstall
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CheckInstall
>
> --
> M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
> -----
> PhD Student
> University of Zürich
> http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/
>
>

Hi,

I do not know what is the problem exactly. I suggest the following
(since you can always install 3.2 from apt there is no risk on this)

1. Uninstall octave 3.2
sudo apt-get purge octave3.2

2. Re-install the package as you did

3. Test the installation from the command line.
3.a Open a terminal and type
octave

The version of Octave is given in the text printed when it initializes.

Also, we usually recommend not to use QtOctave cause ti is old,
abandoned and buggy. You can use gedit + plugins to make an excellent
IDE (search the mailing list archive for "gedit" to learn more).

Let me know how it goes.

-- 
M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
-----
PhD Student
University of Zürich
http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/