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Re: what version should I use ?
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Dirk Eddelbuettel |
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Re: what version should I use ? |
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Fri, 27 Feb 2004 13:03:53 -0600 |
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On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 09:55:38AM -0800, Jean-Michel besnard wrote:
> Well, I started with the latest and installed the octave-forge package in its
> version '2004.02.12-2' which I guess means version 2.1.54 or so because it
> installed the libs in /usr/share/octave/2.1.54/site/m/octave-forge
[...]
> I have then removed octave2.1 and octave-forge (from 'Debian unstable') to
> install those from 'Debian testing' which are:
> octave2.1 2.1.53-4
> octave-forge 2003.06.02-8 (I guess 2.1.50 when referring to install path)
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> and then again I am getting into the same problems.
Wait until later this afternoon (US time, so say another five or so hours)
until the new revision of octave-forge (that I mailed about earlier) becomes
available on the mirrors.
If everything else fails, you could also always consider compiling it locally.
Hth, Dirk
address@hidden:~> dpkg -l octave2.1 octave-forge
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version
Description
+++-===================================-===================================-======================================================================================
ii octave2.1 2.1.55-1
The GNU Octave language for numerical computations (2.1 branch)
ii octave-forge 2004.02.12-3
Contributed functions for GNU Octave from http://octave.sf.net
address@hidden:~> octave
GNU Octave, version 2.1.55 (i386-pc-linux-gnu).
Copyright (C) 2004 John W. Eaton.
This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTIBILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. For details, type arranty'.
Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For more information, visit http://www.octave.org/help-wanted.html
Report bugs to <address@hidden> (but first, please read
http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to write a helpful report).
octave:1> randn(3)
ans =
-0.479342 -0.491051 -0.070753
0.784174 0.237828 1.065834
-0.500487 -0.148241 -1.449452
octave:2> help randn
randn is the dynamically-linked function from the file
/usr/lib/octave/2.1.55/site/oct/i386-pc-linux-gnu/octave-forge/randn.oct
^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^
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