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Re: octave + octave-forge via Debian's apt-get


From: Claudio Belotti
Subject: Re: octave + octave-forge via Debian's apt-get
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:39:48 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i

Al,
from a shell you can do:
apt-show-versions octave-forge

After apt-get install octave-forge you should have octave-forge functions in 
your path, try to find the "sparse" file (in my system 
/usr/share/octave/2.1.53/site/m/octave-forge/sparse)

and check under octave the path with "path".


Claudio


On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, A. Danial wrote:

> I've installed octave and octave-forge on a Debian machine via the
> convenient apt-get utility, ie,
> 
>   apt-get install octave
>   apt-get install octave-forge 
> 
> It leaves me with octave version 2.1.53 but I don't know how to 
> deterimine the octave-forge version from the octave prompt, or which 
> octave-forge functions are available.
> 
> http://packages.debian.org/stable/math/octave-forge suggests that
> even an old version of octave-forge would give me the 'sparse' function
> but it isn't available on my Debian machine after the apt-get installs.
> Does some system or environment variable or .octaverc setting need to
> be made to enable octave-forge functions?     -- Al
> 
> 
> 
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