Re: download octave to windows 7

[David Grundberg]

On 06/14/2010 08:57 AM, PerB wrote:
> Maybe Mathilde's question is that trivial but I also have problem with Ocatve
> and Windows.
>
> I have downloaded and installed the latest Ocatve-Forge binaries
> (Octave-3.2.4_i686-pc-mingw32_gcc-4.4.0_setup.exe) on both a Windows 7 and a
> Windows XP (SP3) machine. Both machine were "clean", i.e. no previous
> GNUplot or Octave installations present. I have not CygWin installed either.
>
> Octave installs and I can start the Octave command line interface and the
> text part and calculations seams to work OK.  But plotting do not work.
>
> A simple
>
> > plot(1:10);
>
> will first give a warning of obsolete function isstr and doing it a second
> time will open a GNUplot window and plot a line but then the GNUplot window
> hangs and becomes non responsive.
>
> Starting GNUplot command line interface by it self (wgnuplot.exe) and do
> some sample plots e.g.;
>
> gnuplot>plot [-10:10] sin(x) )
>
> is not a problem so the GNUplot installation seams to work OK.
>
> Am I missing some Octave graphics drivers/DLLs/function/pacakges or what ?
>
> Thanks,
> /Per


Please reply at the bottom, it makes the thread easier to follow for others.

The problems with e.g. the oct2mat package is well-documented on the 
octave-forge website.

The short reply in the previous discussion was less about the question 
itself and more about the mail containing no information but "it doesn't 
work".   Like whether or not the installer actually ran.  It's hard to 
draw any conclusions based on nothing but opinion.

hth
David