Re: Octave package location [was: regarding location of Matlab compatible polygon functions]

[ederag]

On Friday, April 08, 2016 09:50:28 Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote:
>...
> It might be useful for your to keep your installation at the user
> level (I do this unless I am admin of a public machine, in which case
> I use debian package manager).
> You do this with
> 
> pkg prefix ~/.octave/ ~/.octave;
> 
> Then octave will install packages in ~/.octave


It is also possible to put the following in the .octaverc

"""
# need to give separately the octave-pkg/<version>/system_dependent argument 
# otherwise ~/octave is used as a basename.
# ! do not forget the ~/ 
pkg ("prefix", ["~/octave-pkg/" version], ["~/octave-pkg/" version]);

# ~/ not understood here
# replace <user> with your user name
pkg ("local_list", ["/home/<user>/.octave_packages_" version]);
"""

Then several octave versions may coexist peacefully.
Of course for new versions all packages have to be installed again.

This is working fine from 3.8.0 to 4.1.0+

Best regards,
Ederag