Re: problem with installing symbolic toolbox

[Mukesh]

hello david,
i m using red-hat linux platform (enterprise workstation 3).. and it is 
almost similar to red-hat 9 version.
i will be very thankful if can u give me some pointer for correct 
version of "urpmi octave-forge"..
regards
mukesh


David Bateman wrote:

> Mukesh wrote:
>
> > i m a newbie for octave. basically i m a matlab user but now i dont 
> > hav access to that and i need to move to octave. i installed 
> > octave-2.1.71 a couple of days back. but unfortunatelty the most 
> > needful package symbolic toolbox was not there. i found symbolic 
> > toolbox from net developed by ben sapp. i installed all the required 
> > packages (ginac-1.3.2 + cln-1.1.9) but no success. there was some 
> > errors.
> You didn't give the most important piece of information. What platform 
> are you running on? Is it a linux platform? If so which? Or is it 
> windows? In most cases there are pre-built versions of octave and 
> octave-forge available with the proper dependency check to ensure that 
> all of the required libraries are installed... On an RPM based platform
>
> urpmi octave; urpmi octave-forge
>
> is generally enough to get what you want. On a DEB based platform
>
> apt-get update; apt-get install octave octave-forge
>
> should do it.... Otherwise under windows, the cygwin installer allows 
> you to check octave and octave-forge to install both packages... I 
> presume if you went this route then you already got
> octave from this source, so just add octave-forge, however I don't 
> know if the cygwin version has ginac, cln and gmp installed to allow 
> the symbolic toolbox to work..
>
> Regards
> David
>
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> >
> > In file included from src/symbols.cc:32:
> > src/ov-vpa.h: In constructor `octave_vpa::octave_vpa(const GiNaC::ex&)':
> > src/ov-vpa.h:62: `ex_to_numeric' undeclared in namespace `GiNaC'
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> >
> >
> > I found another option octave-forge-2005.06.13 that gives latest 
> > symbolic
> > toolbox and lot more. but unfortunately when i tried installing it,
> > there was some error during make.
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> >
> > g++ -c -fPIC -I/usr/local/include/octave-2.1.71 
> > -I/usr/local/include/octave-2.1.71/octave -I/usr/local/include 
> > -mieee-fp -g -O2 -DHAVE_OCTAVE_21 creadpdb.cc -o creadpdb.o
> > creadpdb.cc: In function `octave_value_list Fcreadpdb(const 
> > octave_value_list&,
> >   int)':
> > creadpdb.cc:97: `lseek' undeclared (first use this function)
> > creadpdb.cc:97: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for 
> > each
> >   function it appears in.)
> > creadpdb.cc:242: `close' undeclared (first use this function)
> > make[2]: *** [creadpdb.oct] Error 1
> > make[2]: Target `all' not remade because of errors.
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> >
> >
> > I want to know if there is any successful way to install symbolic 
> > toolbox. I dont hav too much idea abt the makefiles.. so plz be 
> > detailed while explaing anything in that area.. thanx in advance!!
> >
> > regards
> > mukesh
> >
> >
> >
> >
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