Re: Problem with Octave-2.9.14

[Muthiah Annamalai]

On 10/3/07, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On  3-Oct-2007, Rajkiran wrote:
>
> |       I see that it is picking up m-files from another installation
> | on my system. How can I change the path from where it picks octave's
> | m-files ?
>
> It should just work.  If you run what you think is the octave-2.9.14
> binary and version still returns 2.1.50, then you are not running
> 2.9.14.  The fact that the version function returns 2.1.50 should tell
> you that something is screwed up.  What is the output of running ls -l
> in the directory where you think octave 2.9.14 is installed?  Have you
> tried removing 2.1.50?  How did you install 2.9.14?
>
> jwe
>
>

One quick check to run 2.9.14 or whatever  version, from the sources
is to do a

cd octave-2.9.14/
./run-octave

and actually see if you compiled octave successfully. This must
unambiguously startup 2.9.14, if you built it at all.

-Muthu