Re: fmins not found

[James Sherman Jr.]

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Alice Marcot <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi, I am using Octave 3.2.4 on Ubuntu Linux. The following

d=fmins(inline('(x(1)-5).^2+(x(2)-8).^4'),[0;0])

give the error:

error: `fmins' undefined near line 99 column 3
error: called from:
error:   terak.m at line 99, column 2

Hi,

I would guess that the first thing to check is to see if the optim package (where fmins is located) is installed, by typing

> pkg list

and seeing if the optim package is listed there.

If not, you can download it from:

http://octave.sourceforge.net/optim/index.html

and then follow the instructions here to install it:

http://octave.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html#install

Hope this helps.