Re: installing octave-forge files in windows?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 09:56:04PM -0500, Doug Stewart wrote:
> I have Andy Adler's port to windows, and I would like to add the 
> symbolic math from octaveforge. I have downloaded the octave-forge file, 
> and in it are a zillion files.
> 
> 1 Do I have to compile some of it?

It depends, see below.

> 2 How do you install it in linix?

It depends.  Debian users say 
   
        $ apt-get install octave-forge
        
I am unsure about other distributions.

> 3 How should I install it in windos?

Not sure for Andy's port. My work laptop runs Cygwin, and by running

        http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe  
        
add adding 

        ftp.octave.org/pub/octave/cygwin
        
it all worked out of the box.  Not sure about the octave.org URL needed the
/pub/octave/cygwin/path or not.

Hth, Dirk

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