Re: error: 'pkg' undefined

Hi Philip,

Thanks for your help. Re-building did indeed work. Turns out the problem was that I had Qt4 and Qt5 installed but only Qt4 had the extras installed (dev-tools, language modules, etc) but octave was configured to use Qt5. Re-configuring with --qt-ver=4 (or something like that) did the trick. All working great now.

Thanks again,

Steve

On 15 February 2017 at 20:53, PhilipNienhuis [via Octave] <[hidden email]> wrote:

stevebiggs wrote

Hi,

I have just installed octave 4.2.0 from source. What is there appears to be working. However, I need the symbolic package so I tried:

pkg install -forge symbolic

but I get an error message:

error: 'pkg' undefined near line 1 column 1

Also, when I start octave, I get the following error messages before the version number, welcome message, etc:

error: '__all_opts__' undefined near line 2 column 6
error: execution exception in /usr/local/share/octave/4.2.0/m/optimization/PKG_ADD

So, what's the problem?

Judging from the error messages and taking into account that "pkg" is a core octave function, it looks like your Octave installation is borked.
Have you tried reinstalling Octave?

Philip

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From:	stevebiggs
Subject:	Re: error: 'pkg' undefined
Date:	Fri, 17 Feb 2017 02:48:23 -0800 (PST)