Re: dev (gui) build does not start on kubuntu 13.04

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 08/18/2013 03:58 PM, Kirill Fuior wrote:
> On 18.08.13 21:11, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> > This sounds like (in behavior anyway) a bug from early on when the GUI
> > would fail because a default-qt-settings file was missing or bad.
> there is default-qt-settings.in file in libgui subfolder, and the same
> in .build/libgui. I attach it -- it seems to be correct.
> there is also qt-setting file in ~/.config/octave/qt-settings. I've
> attached it too.
> > I propose to create an empty qt-settings file with which octave should
> > be able to start up.
> I've tried to delete all content of this file and then start octave
> again, but it didn't help.
> But octave has wrote something to this file (attached -- qt-settings_new).
>
> If I completely delete this file, octave shows the wizard, creates
> qt-settings file with default content and nothing else happens.

I don't see anything unusual in those settings files.  It is clear 
though that your existing qt-settings is for an old-old version because 
there is hardly anything within.  It has advanced to reading and 
duplicating settings, so that is good to know.


> > > But src/octave-cli runs octave in terminal.
> >
> > Plotting is fine?
>
> I've tried a simple plot. It's fine on installed octave, but on built
> sources it says:
>
> octave-cli:1> x = -10:0.1:10;
> octave-cli:2> plot (x, sin (x));
> error: 'plot' undefined near line 1 column 1

That is strange.  plot.m should be in the path.  Type

type path

and check

path

to see if the path makes sense.

Dan