Re: Installing octave on Windows XP

[Nicholas Jankowski]

did the old version of Octave set Environment Variables that maybe
didn't get cleared?

If you right click on My Computer, Click Properties, Click on the
Advanced Tab, then the Environment Variables button.

check both user and system variables lists for anything that looks
related to the 3.0.3 install.

2nd option might be a user specific .octavrc file sitting somewhere
(maybe in your home user folder? can't remember where octave looks for
.octaverc's in windows)

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Christoffer Andin <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been using octave 3.0.3 for some time until I now decided to install
> 3.6.1. I have followed the installation instructions (extracted the files to
> C:\Octave\Octave3.6.1_gcc4.6.2). But when I start octave it seems that there
> are dependencies from the old 3.0.3 installation. So I uninstalled 3.0.3 and
> after that I get a lot of addpath warnings that directories don't exist (it
> searches for packages and m-files from the 3.0.3 installation). Virtually no
> command/function is recognized at the octave prompt either.
>
> I have searched for octave related keys in the registry and removed all I
> could find, although they didn't seem too suspicious to me...
>
> I would be glad if anyone out there recognizes this error and has a
> solution!
>
> Best regards,
> Christoffer
>
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