Re: pkg problems

[Benjamin Abbott]

On Nov 24, 2012, at 4:53 PM, Terry Duell <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello Carnë,
> 
> On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 15:01:25 +1100, Carnë Draug <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> On 24 November 2012 04:48, Terry Duell <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Can someone please suggest the 'proper' process (assuming that there is 
>>> one) that I should follow to get to an updated set of packages, so 'pkg' 
>>> knows what it should know and Octave paths are correct?
>> 
>> My suggestion would be the following:
>> 
>> 1 -  remove all packages installed from the repos.
>> 2 - remove your ~/octave directory (well, make a copy of it somewhere
>> else in case in something goes wrong). This are your local
>> installation of packages.
>> 3 - remove ~/.octave_packages (your database with locally installed packages)
>> 4 - remove OCTAVE_HOME()/share/octave/packages and octave_config_info
>> ("libdir")/octave/packages (get the value of OCTAVE_HOME and
>> octave_config_info ("libdir") from an Octave prompt). These are global
>> packages you may have installed as root
>> 5 - remove OCTAVE_HOME()/share/octave/octave_packages (your database
>> for globally installed packages)
>> 
>> When you start Octave now, you should now have a clean start. It
>> should also be possible to rebuild the databases with "pkg rebuild"
>> but I never tried it.
> 
> OK, I followed the above to clean out all my packages and other files as 
> suggested, then installed all the packages I required using 'pkg install 
> -forge ...', and that has all gone well, although there were a Huge number of 
> warnings when installing the control package, and a lesser number for odepkg, 
> but I guess that OK, I have yet to test.
> 
> When I now start Octave I get many warnings (addpath) referring to old 
> packages that were removed from my ~/octave dir.
> If I run 'path' none of these old paths are included in the output. All these 
> old paths are included in my .octaverc file.
> Is there a simple way that these old paths can removed? I am assuming that as 
> 'path' doesn't know about them I can't use 'rmpath()'.
> 
> Thanks for your help

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Ben