Re: what version should I use ?

[Jean-Michel besnard]

Hi,


I if type:

dpkg -l octave2.1 octave-forge
octave
randn(3)

then I obtain the exact same output as Dirk does but here is my next problem:

octave:6> plot3(1,2,3)
parse error near line 93 of file 
/usr/share/octave/2.1.55/site/m/octave-forge/plot/plot3.m

>>>     endwhile
               ^

error: `for' command matched by `endwhile' near line 93 column 5
error: `plot3' undefined near line 6 column 1


Regards,

Jean-Michel

On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 01:03:53PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 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)
> > 
> > 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
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> 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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