Re: Package installation issues

[Børge Strand-Bergesen]

Thanks Andy,

That's good to know. The package installation process may be a bit
daunting to some, new users in particular. So I really appreciate
"full package" being available. Most people have the disk space to
spare anyway.

The computer in question is at my office. I give it the night to
install the first of the packages.

Is there such a thing as "pkg install --verbose" to see what's going
on? Do you think my Cygwin installation may be in the way?

Børge

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 17:18, Andy Buckle <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 2 January 2012 15:32, Børge Strand-Bergesen <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> could you please help out with some hints on package installation? I
>> have deleted and reinstalled octave-forge from
>> Octave3.4.3_gcc4.5.2-install.exe a few times. When I try to install
>> packages it either seems to hang, or it gives a long list of gcc (and
>> others) messages. The computer is Win7-64. It also has Octave
>> 3.2.4 installed. I reboot inbetween uninstalls and new
>> installs. The install file itself seems to run fine every time. It is
>> the packages which give me a headache. I was able to successfully
>> install it on a Win7-32 box.
>>
>> To uninstall I delete the folder C:\Octave\Octave3.4.3_gcc4.5.2. The
>> "uninstall" file which ended up in the start menu has no file
>> extension after I run
>> the installation program, so I can't really use it.
>>
>> How should I properly delete Octave 3.4.3 in order to try reinstalling it?
>>
>> After "uninstalling" a few times I'm no longer able to provoke the
>> system to give me the compilation errors. Instead Octave hangs during
>> package install.
>>
>> Is there an installation package with everything preconfigured and
>> included? ... or is there an active policy to only welcome users who
>> can figure out the packages system?
>>
>> I install packages with this command:
>> pkg install miscellaneous-1.0.11.tar.gz struct-1.0.9.tar.gz
>> optim-1.0.17.tar.gz audio-1.1.4.tar.gz signal-1.1.1.tar.gz
>> control-2.2.3.tar.gz specfun-1.1.0.tar.gz gnuplot-1.0.1.tar.gz
>> multicore-0.2.15.tar.gz
>
> I made the 3.4.3 installer exe. It only unpacks files and creates
> shortcuts. No registry or path changes, or anything tricky. Reboots
> should not be required.
>
> See the README (which also comes up on the web page)
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave_Windows%20-%20MinGW/Octave%203.4.3%20for%20Windows%20MinGW%20Installer/
>
> I think all the packages you need are pre-built  (maybe not quite the
> same versions - I did not check all the details). They are in
>
> Octave3.4.3_gcc4.5.2_pkgs_20111026.7z
>
> You will need 7zip to extract that. Again, see the README. Building
> for MinGW is tricky, so "pkg install" will not necessarily work.
>
> I could make another installer with all the packages from the 7z.
> Tatsuro, Nitzan - what do you think?
>
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