Re: imread

[Bill Denney]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Miquel Cabanas wrote:

> what a mess, first cygwin, then the cygwin-incompatible version of
> octave, then you want imagemagick...

At this point, with all the difficulty that has been encountered, I'd 
uninstall cygwin, delete the c:\cygwin directory, and then reinstall it.

> For that, remove first everything you have installed so far and start
> from scratch by following the simple and excellent installation
> instructions by Paul Solderlind,
>
> http://home.tiscalinet.ch/paulsoderlind/Software/Software.html#OctaveInstallation
>
> Make sure you install the octave (2.1.73), one/any/all of the octave
> documentation packages, octave-forge (2006.03.17-1), gnuplot (4.0.0-1),
> and imagemagick (6.0.4-1) packages (and any other that you want). Also,
> emacs/Xemacs, vim, nedit, texmacs could be useful as editors. Indeed,
> you can run octave from within emacs/xemacs and texmacs.
>
> Package dependencies will be handled by the program and all required
> packages will be automagically installed.

Somewhat more detailed instructions can be found at 
http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?OctaveForWindows .

Bill

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