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
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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//
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but still when i typed symbols on my octave command prompt it says
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error: `symbols' undefined near line 5 column 1
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i also tried going to the directory where symbols.oct is located and
type "symbols" their but it gives a different error.
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error:
/usr/libexec/octave/2.1.71/site/oct/i686-redhat-linux-gnu/octave-forge/symbols.oct
is not a valid shared library
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plz help!!!!
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