Re: Missing file/directory for arpack-1.0.6

[Carlo de Falco]

On 16/ott/08, at 02:47, Ilan Boaz wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to install ARPACK for Octave.app on a Mac (G5 PPC Tiger).
>
> I am following the steps in this thread:
> https://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/help-octave/2007-November.txt
> I downloaded arpack-1.0.6.tar.gz from octave-forge and unpacked it to
> ~/octave/arpack-1.0.6
> I downloaded the ARPACK source from http://www.caam.rice.edu/software/
> ARPACK/, compiled it, and moved libarpack.a to ~/octave/arpack-1.0.6/
> In the subsequent make process, arpack-1.0.6/inst/svds.m calls for
> eigs.m, which I gather is supposed to be created using eigs.oct.
>
> According to the thread above for arpack-1.0.2, eigs.oct is under
> powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.1-api-v29.
> arpack-1.0.2 had the following directory structure:
> > [~/octave/arpack-1.0.2] -bash-2.05b 517$ ls
> > doc                                     powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.1-
> api-v29
> > packinfo                                svds.m
>
> However, arpack-1.0.6 has a different directory structure:
> % du -d1
> 48      ./doc
> 16      ./inst
> 3232    ./src
>
> Apparently powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.1-api-v29 disappeared and with it
> eigs.oct.
>
> Is this a problem in the octave-forge distribution package?
>
> Boaz

read the FAQ for the package manager at
http://octave.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html

or just type
>> doc pkg
at the Octave prompt

summarizing: you don't just copy manually the files from a package to  
the install location, you need to install them using the package  
manager pkg.m

c.