Re: Octave for Windows HOWTO

[Agustin Barto]

Quentin Spencer wrote:
> One thing that often needlessly shows up in octave's dependency chain 
> is tetex. This is because octave needs makeinfo for its help 
> documentation. makeinfo is a relatively small program that's usually 
> packaged as a part of a bigger texinfo package, which requires tetex, 
> which often requires a big font package. This accounted for a lot of 
> extra downloading the last time I tried a cygwin installation. I would 
> check to make sure tetex is not installed, and if you wanted to go one 
> step further, you could remove everything included in the texinfo 
> package except makeinfo. I think breaking up packages like this could 
> be controversial with people who understand and use cygwin, but I 
> think the intended audience of your windows installer would not care.
I think I removed tetex from the package and everything seems to work 
just fine. After the installation the environment seems to be sane. I 
added a few packages after installation and it didn't complain.


Agustin



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