Re: Uninstalling windows octave destroyed my cygwin installation!

[Andy Adler]

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Christoph Dalitz wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 17:27:59 -0800
> "Joshua Scholar" <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > Originally I was running a version of cygwin that's about a year old.
> > Of course I'm running the newest one now - and that's the one the
> > uninstaller blew up.
> >
> > If I install Octave again, I'm going to install the cygwin version (instead
> > of the stand alone version) and leave compatability testing to people who
> > have fast connections and can download fixes faster than I can.
> >
> Why did you install the standalone Octave package when you have Cygwin
> installed already?
>
> I am no Cygwin wizard, but it sounds logical to me that the standalone Octave
> version, which has a private copy of Cygwin, cannot play well with another 
> Cygwin
> install on the same machine.

The reason we have so many people having this issue is simple.

If you go to www.octave.org/download.html, there is the
following statement:

   An easy-to-install Windows binary is available from
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/matlinks.

If you go to sourceforge.net/project/matlinks, there is
a link "GNU Octave for windows" (Sept 10, 2002), which contains
version 2.1.35 and causes all these problems.

The simple solution is the following:

CHANGE THE OCTAVE.ORG WEB PAGE TO POINT TO
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave
FOR WINDOWS BINARY DOWNLOADS  !!!!

This will save lots of problems posted to this mailing list,
and will give a much better first impression to new users.

Andy




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