Re: function still 'missing' even after package installation

[Lukas Reichlin]

On 31.10.2012, at 13:37, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 30 October 2012 23:15, mrpurple <address@hidden> wrote:
>> So I did
>> pkg install -forge optim
>> and got
>> warning: gen_doc_cache: unusable help text found in file 'test_d2_min_1'
>> warning: gen_doc_cache: unusable help text found in file 'test_d2_min_2'
>> warning: gen_doc_cache: unusable help text found in file 'test_d2_min_3'
>> For information about changes from previous versions of the optim package,
>> run 'news ("optim")'.
>> Working off the assumption that I could carry on despite the warnings I
>> tried running my work again and still got:
>> error: `fminsearch' undefined near line 27 column 15
> 
> Try "pkg load optim". Installed packages are no longer loaded by
> default, in the interest of avoiding namespace pollution.
> 
> - Jordi G. H.

You can try

        pkg rebuild -auto optim

to load the optim package automatically at each start of octave.

Lukas