Re: download octave to windows 7

[Andy Buckle]

I had not actually read that page (because the server was down when I
met the issue).

pkg unload oct2mat

worked for me. So then I put it in "%homepath%\.octaverc"

Andy

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:07 AM, A Kelly <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 15/06/2010 9:46 AM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> --- David Grundberg  wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>> For windows version octave-3.2.4 on the octave-forge website, the way avoid 
>> to the plot problem due to
>> the oct2mat package being auto loaded is documented in the following,
>>
>> http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?OctaveForWindows
>> 1. Standalone ports
>>   1.1. Octave 3.2.4 for Windows MinGW32
>>    Additional important topics found after the release:
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tatsuro
>>
>>
>> I had a similar problem with the plot window freezing. Following the advice 
>> about oct2mat made no difference. I have not yet found a solution.
>>
> Regards,
> Andrew
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