RE: octaveforge, history not working

[Joe Koski]

For the record, I had the identical experience (and error messages) with
octave-2.1.50 a few days ago after I installed octave-forge on my Mac under
OS X 10.2.8. My history also stopped working.

Joe Koski

on 12/13/03 7:32 AM, Y U Sasidhar at address@hidden wrote:

> I  have  installed  octave 2.1.50 earlier;  now I  installed
> octave-forge-2003.06.02.tar.gz
> I also installed gnuplot 3.8j to be able use mouse.
> Its working. But history is not working ! i.e. arrow keys don't recall
> previous
> commands.
> I get the error messages:
> ====================
> error: 
> /usr/local/libexec/octave/2.1.50/site/oct/i686-pc-linux-gnu/octave-forge/dispa
> tch.oct 
> is not a valid shared library
> error: `dispatch' undefined near line 2 column 1
> error: near line 2 of file
> `/usr/local/share/octave/2.1.50/site/m/octave-forge/comm//PKG_ADD'
> octave:1>
> 
> =======================
> following installation of octave-forge I got the following:
> 
> =================================
> 
> To use, add the following to .octaverc:
>  LOADPATH = [
> '/usr/local/libexec/octave/2.1.50/site/oct/i686-pc-linux-gnu/octave-forge:/usr
> /local/share/octave/2.1.50/site/m/octave-forge//:',
> LOADPATH ];
>  EXEC_PATH = [
> '/usr/local/libexec/octave/2.1.50/site/exec/i686-pc-linux-gnu:', EXEC_PATH
> ];
> =============================
> I created the .octaverc in home directory as above; still the problem
> persists.
> 

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