Re: spline-gcvspl package: installation problem

[Andy Buckle]

On 10 January 2012 08:51, BARES Jonathan <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello everyone
> I am almost new in Ubuntu and Octave. I installed Octave3.4.2 on my Ubuntu
> 10.4. I managed to install properly some new package I needed (symbolic,
> spline, algebra...). But I now have problem to install the spline-gcvspl
> package.
> When I do the thing (pkg install spline-gcvspl-1.0.8.tar.gz), I do'nt get
> any error message. But after, Octave does'nt recognize csaps function
> (included in this package).
> Moreover, it seems that the package is well installed since when I ask the
> installed package list (pkg list) I get:
>
> p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } Package Name | Version | Installation
> directory
> -------------------+---------+-----------------------
> general *| 1.2.2 | /usr/share/octave/packages/general-1.2.2
> gnuplot | 1.0.1 | /usr/share/octave/packages/gnuplot-1.0.1
> image *| 1.0.14 | /usr/share/octave/packages/image-1.0.14
> integration | 1.0.7 | /usr/share/octave/packages/integration-1.0.7
> linear-algebra *| 2.0.0 | /usr/share/octave/packages/linear-algebra-2.0.0
> miscellaneous *| 1.0.11 | /usr/share/octave/packages/miscellaneous-1.0.11
> missing-functions *| 1.0.2 |
> .../share/octave/packages/missing-functions-1.0.
> 2
> odepkg *| 0.6.12 | /usr/share/octave/packages/odepkg-0.6.12
> optim *| 1.0.16 | /usr/share/octave/packages/optim-1.0.16
> optiminterp *| 0.3.3 | /usr/share/octave/packages/optiminterp-0.3.3
> plot *| 1.0.8 | /usr/share/octave/packages/plot-1.0.8
> quaternion *| 1.0.0 | /home/jonathan/octave/quaternion-1.0.0
> signal *| 1.0.11 | /usr/share/octave/packages/signal-1.0.11
> specfun *| 1.0.9 | /usr/share/octave/packages/specfun-1.0.9
> special-matrix *| 1.0.7 | /usr/share/octave/packages/special-matrix-1.0.7
> spline-gcvspl | 1.0.8 | /home/jonathan/octave/spline-gcvspl-1.0.8
> splines *| 1.0.7 | /usr/share/octave/packages/splines-1.0.7
> statistics *| 1.0.10 | /usr/share/octave/packages/statistics-1.0.10
> struct *| 1.0.9 | /usr/share/octave/packages/struct-1.0.9
>
> Does anybody understand why csaps function still doesn't work?
> Thank you
>
> Jonathan

I was just typing as Marco beat me to it. I would add that if you want
the package every time you use octave then do

pkg rebuild -auto spline-gcvspl

and it will auto-load every time octave starts.

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