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Re: Running Octave from Fink?


From: Ev Yemini
Subject: Re: Running Octave from Fink?
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 12:41:12 +0000

It works! (ATLAS took 7+ hours of what looked like an infinite loop of
the same output -- at times I thought it was stuck and was tempted to
interrupt and restart the install)

Just wanted to thank everyone for all their help!

Many thanks & all the best,
Ev

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Ev Yemini <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Alexander and all,
>
> It turns out fink was failing for the install but, because of the size
> of the command window, the message looked to me like success.
>
> In a scene reminiscent of South Park's Humancentipad episode, I simply
> scanned the Xcode license, didn't read any of it, and hit return
> *muliple times* before realizing my mistake. Why anyone would make the
> end user type out "agree" I'll never know, but I suppose this is the
> unhappy offspring of a command line wedded to an EULA.
>
> Right now I'm waiting on a marathon install session of ATLAS. It's
> been about 5 hours so far (including dependencies) and it still seems
> obsessed with reading my L1 cache, so I hope this ends well.
>
> Despite my pathetic sarcasm, I do want to thank everyone for their
> great help. I understand the nightmares associated with software
> engineering and I greatly appreciate the hard work, selflessness, and
> goodwill that went into producing the programs I'm about to use.
>
> I'll send out a quick email when everything's done as another thank you.
>
> Many thanks & all the best,
> Ev
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Alexander Hansen
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 11/5/12 8:19 AM, Ev Yemini wrote:
>>> Typing "octave" in the terminal is the very first thing I tried ;) It
>>> doesn't work.
>>>
>>> I also tried "octave-atlas", "octave-3.6.3", "octave-core", and
>>> various combinations replacing "octave" with "oct".
>>>
>>> Coming from a Unix background (longer ago than I care to remember) I
>>> went looking for the obscure command that rebuilds my database for
>>> "locate". Perhaps it would bring the location for the binary? No such
>>> luck as grepping "locate octave" for "usr" or "bin" produce paths to
>>> what are clearly not binaries.
>>>
>>> What am I missing?
>>>
>>> I've run everything up to and including "fink install control-atlas-oct362".
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>> Ev
>>>
>>
>> Fink doesn't install stuff in /usr.  You can use "dpkg -L <packagename>"
>> to see what got installed where by a package.
>>
>> As your command try "octave-3.6.2", if you installed
>> control-atlas-oct362, because that should mean that you have
>> octave362-atlas installed.
>>
>> If you the "octave" command to point to octave-3.6.2, then you can use
>> "fink install octave-3.6.2"; otherwise "octave" points to the latest
>> version currently in Fink, which is octave-3.6.3.
>>
>> --
>> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
>> Fink User Liaison
>> My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/


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