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From: | Mike Miller |
Subject: | [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51632] MS Windows portable (i.e. zip) version cannot find pre-installed packages, needs pkg rebuild, not mentioned at first run |
Date: | Thu, 3 Aug 2017 11:57:01 -0400 (EDT) |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:54.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/54.0 |
Follow-up Comment #25, bug #51632 (project octave): To my mind, the zip distribution of Octave is an archive, that's all. Calling it a portable distribution is a bit disingenuous. I haven't heard much call from users over the years for a truly portable version of Octave. If that's something that is now desired, maybe we should tackle the sub-issues in separate bug reports. For now, Octave definitely does need to know its own root directory (which can be overridden by the OCTAVE_HOME environment variable for many functions), and the pkg installation prefixes and cache file locations (which are not corrected to OCTAVE_HOME because they can be separately configured to be anywhere on the filesystem). I thought the zip version was intended to be a workaround for not having admin privileges on a Windows system. Unpack the archive in a specific directory that the user does have privileges on and then run post-installation commands that a proper packaging format would normally run. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51632> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/
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