Re: Octave under windows - can't get image display

[Andy Buckle]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Alasdair McAndrew <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to help some students set up octave under windows for image
> processing.  I myself use Linux, for which I've had no troubles at all.  I
> downloaded the windows .exe file for them, and got it set up and running.
> There seem to be two issues:
>
> 1) I can't extend the path; Octave doesn't even recognize files in the
> current directory.
>
> 2) This is the more serious issue: gnuplot doesn't seem to work.  All
> graphics functions, such as "imshow(x)" either do nothing, or at best
> display an empty (gnuplot) window which hangs, and has to be forcibly
> stopped.  Can I use another version of gnuplot, or is there another package
> completely to use for image display?  I tried using the image_viewer
> function, but that doesn't seem to work under windows.
>
> Any help would be most gratefully received!
>
> Thanks,
> Alasdair

You may have the oct2mat problem

pkg rebuild -noauto oct2mat

http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?29813

Or, when installing Octave, deselect the oct2mat package.

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