Re: Octave 3.8.2 package installation problems

[Philip Nienhuis]

> Hello
>
> I am very new to Octave, I am running a GUI version of Octave 3.8.2 on Centos6, 
> and trying to run an existing code that needs the statistics package, when I 
> try to install it I get this:
> statistics needs io >= 1.0.18
>
> and when I try to install io this way:
> pkg install -forge io
> I get the error: QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch 
> failed: No such file or directory
>
> I also downloaded the package io-2.2.6.tar.gz from sourceforge and tried to 
> install it in Octave locally using the command line version, but I get a 
> segmentation fault and Octave just terminates itself
> If I use the Command Window in the Octave GUI, and run this:
> pkg install -verbose -forge -local io
>
> I get the following result:
>
> mkdir (/tmp/oct-8si90c)
> untar (/home/bayan/Downloads/io-2.2.6.tar.gz, /tmp/oct-8si90c)
> make: Entering directory `/tmp/oct-8si90c/io/src'
> mkoctfile csvexplode.cc
> mkoctfile csv2cell.cc
> mkoctfile csvconcat.cc
> mkoctfile cell2csv.cc
> mkoctfile -c xmlread.cc
> mkoctfile -c xmltree_read.c
> mkoctfile -c xmltree.c
> mkoctfile xmlread.o xmltree_read.o xmltree.o
> mkoctfile col2num.cc
> mkoctfile num2col.cc
> make: Leaving directory `/tmp/oct-8si90c/io/src'
> copyfile /tmp/oct-8si90c/io/src/cell2csv.oct /tmp/oct-8si90c/io/src/col2num.oct 
> /tmp/oct-8si90c/io/src/csv2cell.oct /tmp/oct-8si90c/io/src/csvconcat.oct 
> /tmp/oct-8si90c/io/src/csvexplode.oct /tmp/oct-8si90c/io/src/num2col.oct 
> /tmp/oct-8si90c/io/src/xmlread.oct 
> /tmp/oct-8si90c/io/inst/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-api-v49+
> QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: No such 
> file or directory
> QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: No such 
> file or directory
> error: couldn't append to
> save: unable to open output file ''
> error: called from 'install' in file 
> /usr/local/share/octave/3.8.2/m/pkg/private/install.m near line 289, column 7
> error: called from:
> error:   /usr/local/share/octave/3.8.2/m/pkg/private/install.m at line 305, 
> column 5
> error:   /usr/local/share/octave/3.8.2/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 394, column 9
>
> I went to /tmp/ and there was no such directory called "oct-8si90c"

That's because in the end the "pkg" command cleans up after itself, also 
in case of errors.

> Can I know what the issue might be?

No.

Did you have sufficient credentials to be able to install to 
/usr/local/share ? (superuser? sudo?)
Maybe try "help pkg" to read about the PREFIX options to install in your 
HOME directory.
That's about all I can suggest.

Philip