octave-forge compile problems (beginner's question)

[David Collett]

Hi, everyone.

Many of you have been very kind helping me to get started with  
octave. At least six people suggested that I install octave-forge.

I just downloaded and installed octave-forge according to the Mac OS  
X instructions that were included.

I don't know anything about C or compiling, etc., but during the  
process (which took a long time!), the Terminal window had thousands  
of lines racing by, and it seemed like at least half of them were  
error messages. I let it keep going, and it finally finished. At the  
end of this process, the following info appeared:

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> Installation complete.
> To use, add the following to .octaverc:
>   LOADPATH = [ '/sw/lib/octave/2.1.53/site/oct/powerpc-apple-  
> darwin8.1.0/octave-forge:/sw/share/octave/2.1.53/site/m/octave- 
> forge//:', LOADPATH ];
>   EXEC_PATH = [ '/sw/lib/octave/2.1.53/site/exec/powerpc-apple-  
> darwin8.1.0:', EXEC_PATH ];

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But as soon as I typed 'octave' and it started, it reported these 3  
errors, which I didn't have prior to installing octave-forge:

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> [David-Colletts-Computer:doc/octave/examples] david% octave
> GNU Octave, version 2.1.53 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.1.0).
> Copyright (C) 2004 John W. Eaton.
>
> error: `dispatch' undefined near line 2 column 1
> error: near line 2 of file `/sw/share/octave/2.1.53/site/m/octave-  
> forge/comm//PKG_ADD'
> error: source: error sourcing file `/sw/share/octave/2.1.53/site/m/  
> octave-forge/comm//PKG_ADD'
> octave:1>

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Do you know what happened and how I can fix these problems?

Do you think that octave-forge didn't install correctly?
Is there any way that I can tell?

Obviously, I don't know what to do now. Thanks very much.

David Collett




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