Re: invoking the toolboxes

[Geordie McBain]

Hello.  It looks as though the directory containing symbols.oct isn't in
your path.  Try adding it with 

addpath("/usr/libexec/octave/2.1.71/site/oct/i686-redhat-linux-gnu/octave-forge")

On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 11:05 +0530, Mukesh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> thanx david, quentin and all other members for helping me out of the 
> installation problem.
> the solution seems to be temporary, but still this is good enough for me 
> if i can use symbolic toolbox..
> 
> can somebody plz help me about how to invoke the toolbox like symbolic 
> toolbox.
> i read somewhere that i need to add the directory that have my 
> "symbols.oct" file to octave path.
> and then i need to type "symbols" at the octave command prompt.
> 
> i first checked the path for my file "symbols.oct" and i found it at
> /usr/libexec/octave/2.1.71/site/oct/i686-redhat-linux-gnu/octave-forge
> 
> now when i typed command "path" on my octave command prompt i got 
> following output
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> octave:4> path
>  Octave's search path contains the following directories:
>    .
>   /usr/local/libexec/octave/2.1.71/site/oct/i686-pc-linux-gnu//
>   /usr/local/libexec/octave/site/oct/api-v13/i686-pc-linux-gnu//
>   /usr/local/libexec/octave/site/oct/i686-pc-linux-gnu//
>   /usr/local/share/octave/2.1.71/site/m//
>   /usr/local/share/octave/site/api-v13/m//
>   /usr/local/share/octave/site/m//
>   /usr/local/libexec/octave/2.1.71/oct/i686-pc-linux-gnu//
>   /usr/local/share/octave/2.1.71/m//
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> but still when i typed symbols on my octave command prompt it says
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> error: `symbols' undefined near line 5 column 1
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> i also tried going to the directory where symbols.oct is located and 
> type "symbols" their but it gives a different error.
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> error: 
> /usr/libexec/octave/2.1.71/site/oct/i686-redhat-linux-gnu/octave-forge/symbols.oct
>  
> is not a valid shared library
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> plz help!!!!
> 



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