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Re: Trouble with old installation of 3.0.3 on OSX 10.6


From: Ben Abbott
Subject: Re: Trouble with old installation of 3.0.3 on OSX 10.6
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:06:04 -0500

On Mar 3, 2012, at 3:58 PM, Steve Ratts wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've tried repeatedly to get a good install of 3.4.0 from the 
> octave-3.4.0-i386.dmg file, and each time when I launch octave I get a slew 
> of addpath errors relating to an old version of octave I once installed. 
> Furthermore, even the most basic octave commands only return the error message
> 
> error: feval: function `unimplemented' not found
> 
> The addpath erros look like this.
> 
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/libexec/octave/3.0.3/site/oct/i386-apple-darwin8.9.1:
>  No such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/libexec/octave/site/oct/api-v32/i386-apple-darwin8.9.1:
>  No such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/libexec/octave/site/oct/i386-apple-darwin8.9.1:
>  No such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/site/m: No 
> such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/site/api-v32/m: No 
> such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/libexec/octave/3.0.3/oct/i386-apple-darwin8.9.1:
>  No such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m: No such 
> file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/audio: No 
> such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/control: No 
> such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/control/base:
>  No such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/control/hinf:
>  No such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/control/obsolete:
>  No such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/control/system:
>  No such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/control/util:
>  No such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/deprecated: 
> No such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/elfun: No 
> such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/finance: No 
> such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/general: No 
> such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/geometry: No 
> such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/image: No 
> such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/io: No such 
> file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/linear-algebra:
>  No such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/miscellaneous:
>  No such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/optimization:
>  No such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/path: No 
> such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/pkg: No such 
> file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/plot: No 
> such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/polynomial: 
> No such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/quaternion: 
> No such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/set: No such 
> file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/signal: No 
> such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/sparse: No 
> such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/specfun: No 
> such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/special-matrix:
>  No such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/startup: No 
> such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/statistics: 
> No such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/statistics/base:
>  No such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/statistics/distributions:
>  No such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/statistics/models:
>  No such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/statistics/tests:
>  No such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/strings: No 
> such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/testfun: No 
> such file or directory
> warning: addpath: 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.3/m/time: No 
> such file or directory
> 
> 
> I've tried searching the net for clues on how to properly uninstall octave so 
> that I can get a clean install, but all I've found are useless tips for 
> terminal commands like this
> 
> sudo port uninstall octave
> 
> I say useless, because I've tried them and they only give further errors. 
> I've also tried the simple expedient of dragging the octave.app file from my 
> /Applications folder to the trash. Nothing seems to work.
> 
> Anyone here have any ideas how I can exorcise the ghosts octave past from my 
> machine and get a nice clean fresh start?
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve


My guess is that you used to run 3.0.3 and saved the path to your ~/.octaverc 
file.

Either edit ~/.octaverc and remove the parts that set the path, or open a 
Terminal and type "rm ~/.octaverc" to delete the entire file.

Ben




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