Re: Problem with installing packages in Octave

[Søren Hauberg]

Hi,
  That problem is related to a combination of your octave version and 
the fedora package. The problem is that your version of Octave doesn't 
support regular expressions, which the Octave package manager requires. 
This is a common problem, but I can't remember what the solution was :-(
Either the regular expression library was made into a hard dependency of 
Octave, or the Octave package manager was fixed to not depend on the 
regular expression library. Either way, I'm not sure what the best 
solution for you is.
  I'm CC'ing this response to the 'help' list in hope that somebody 
will know the best solution.

Søren

address@hidden skrev:
> Thank you Søren for your instructions. I installed the octave-devel 
> package from Fedora's yum and executed the same pkg install commands in 
> Octave. But this time it returned the following error:
>
>
> error: dotexceptnewline: regexp not implemented in this version
>
> This time it seems to be some problem with regular expressions now... 
> I'm sure something's missing but don't know what it is.
>
> Well still many thanks.
>
> And still expecting your suggestions...
>
> Cong
>
> On 7/21/07, *Søren Hauberg* < address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden> skrev:
>      > In both installations I was told that "no mkoctfile found on
>     path" and
>      > "./configure: line XXXX: conftest.cc : command not found", and
>     nothing
>      > was installed (verified by pkg list). I don't understand what is
>      > happening. Am I missing something? Or something else?
>     I don't use Fedora, so I can't give you the details. I'm guessing that
>     you need to install an octave-devel package. In debian I think that
>     package is called 'octave-headers'. Perhaps it is called something
>     similar in Fedora?
>
>     Søren