Re: octave-forge on OSX

[Søren Hauberg]

The structure of the octave package database has changed since 2.9.14. 
To fix this you have to delete the package database located in 
~/.octave_packages
Hopefully this will be the last change to the database, but nothing is 
stable until 3.0 is released.

Søren

Tommy Chheng skrev:
> hi,
> I'm trying to install octave-forge packages on the new octave 2.9.15  
> and it returns an error.
> The same command was previously working in 2.9.14
>
> octave-2.9.15:1> pkg install signal-1.0.4.tar.gz
> warning: creating installation directory /Users/wheels/octave
> mkoctfile: stripping disabled on this platform
> mkoctfile: stripping disabled on this platform
> warning: directory /Users/wheels/octave/signal-1.0.4 previously lost
> error: structure has no member `archprefix'
> error: evaluating argument list element number 1
> error: evaluating assignment expression near line 1937, column 11
> error: called from `pkg:getarchdir' in file `/Applications/Octave.app/ 
> Contents/Resources/share/octave/2.9.15/m/pkg/pkg.m'
> error: evaluating assignment expression near line 2017, column 12
> error: evaluating for command near line 2011, column 3
> error: called from `pkg:load_packages_and_dependencies' in file `/ 
> Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/2.9.15/m/pkg/ 
> pkg.m'
> error: evaluating if command near line 762, column 3
> error: called from `pkg:install' in file `/Applications/Octave.app/ 
> Contents/Resources/share/octave/2.9.15/m/pkg/pkg.m'
> error: evaluating switch command near line 244, column 3
> error: called from `pkg' in file `/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/ 
> Resources/share/octave/2.9.15/m/pkg/pkg.m'
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