RE: installing octave and octcdf

[Wayne Leslie]

Thanks.

So, rather than "yum install octave-forge" I should have run "yum install 
octave"?

Wayne

-----Original Message-----
From: Sergei Steshenko [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 3:40 PM
To: Wayne Leslie; address@hidden
Subject: Re: installing octave and octcdf

>________________________________
> From: Wayne Leslie <address@hidden>
>To: address@hidden 
>Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 9:00 PM
>Subject: installing octave and octcdf
> 
>
>Good afternoon.
> 
>I installed octave on my linux system using the command “yum install 
>octave-forge”.  This worked fine and installed octave as requested.  I then 
>downloaded octcdf and tried to install it within octave:
> 
>octave:4> pkg install octcdf-1.1.5.tar.gz
>error: the following dependencies where unsatisfied:
>   octcdf needs octave >= 3.4.0
> 
>It appears that my installation of octave is, for some reason, 3.0.5, where 
>3.6.3 seems to be the current version.  What step am I missing in this process 
>and how do I get these two installed properly?
> 
>Thank you very much,
> 
>Wayne Leslie
> 
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They don't release 'octave-forge' - which means you've installed too old Octave 
version.

The packages installed are by default the newest available.

Regards,
  Sergei.