Re: octsympy

[James Sherman Jr.]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Maximilian Nentwich
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried to use the octsympy package with octave 3.8.1 on Xubuntu.
> I got this error
>
> octave:3> pkg install octsympy-0.1.0.tar.gz
> For information about changes from previous versions of the octsympy
> package, run 'news octsympy'.
> octave:4> pkg load octsympy
> octave:5> syms x
> error: 'python_ipc_popen2' undefined near line 23 column 17
> error: called from:
> error:   /home/max/octave/octsympy-0.1.0/private/python_ipc_driver.m at line
> 23, column 15
> error:   /home/max/octave/octsympy-0.1.0/python_cmd.m at line 122, column 9
> error:   /home/max/octave/octsympy-0.1.0/@sym/sym.m at line 262, column 5
> error: evaluating argument list element number 3
> error:   /home/max/octave/octsympy-0.1.0/syms.m at line 104, column 9
> octave:5>
>
> Does anyone have an idea what I could do?
>
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I'm not familiar with this package, but from the error message, it
seems like there's a problem with finding Python on your machine.
>From the installation instructions here:
https://github.com/cbm755/octsympy have you installed Python and
SymPy?

James Sherman