Re: How to use octave-forge?

[Paul Kienzle]

lp.cc has no dependencies.

I would be very happy to have someone propose a package format
for octave which would allow people to download octave-forge
piecemeal and have the results work nicely together.  Even better
if it handles dependencies nicely.

Paul Kienzle
address@hidden

On Dec 22, 2003, at 6:42 PM, Joe Koski wrote:

> You don't say the type of computer that you are using. You should  
> consider
> installing the entire octave-forge library for future use. Many times a
> routine calls other routines, and it is not a simple matter of  
> installing
> one routine.  Depending on your computer, there are several ways of
> downloading and installing the entire octave-forge library of routines.
>
> Joe Koski
>
> on 12/22/03 1:46 PM, Vic Norton at address@hidden wrote:
>
> > I would like to download and install a linear programming routine
> > from octave-forge, but I can't figure out how to go about it.
> >
> > The routine is "lp.cc". It is in the Minimization section
> >   http://octave.sourceforge.net/index/optimization.html#Minimization
> > The URL below is attached to the specific program.
> >
> > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/octave/ 
> > octave-forge/
> > main/optim/lp.cc?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain
> > I guess the project's Unix name is
> >   octave/octave-forge/main/optim/lp.cc
> >
> >
> > I can see the C source for the program on the web, but that does me
> > no good. If I copied it, I wouldn't know how to compile it so that it
> > was part of Octave.
> >
> > Presumably I can "checkout" the lp package via cvs and that will come
> > with the appropriate configuration file(s), but I simply don't know
> > where to start.
> >
> > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. So far nothing I have
> > tried has worked at all.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Vic
> >
> >
> >
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