Re: Trouble installing control toolbox

[marco atzeri]

On 12/14/2012 12:24 AM, Michael Noone wrote:
> Hi - I'm very new to Octave. I'm trying to run it from within Cygwin
> (freshly installed) on a 64 bit Windows 7 machine.
>
> I installed Octave as well as octave-forge when installing Cygwin, using
> the Cywgin installer. This did not seem to give me the controls toolbox
> as I expected (at least as far as I can tell), as running commands like
> bode() would give me error messages about undefined functions.

Michael,

the octave-forge packages need to be loaded before use.

octave:2> pkg load control

octave:3> pkg describe  control
---
Package name:
        control
Version:
        2.3.52
Short description:
        Octave control systems package based on the proven SLICOT library
Status:
        Loaded



> So, I downloaded the control toolbox from here:
> http://octave.sourceforge.net/control/ and attempted to install it. See
> below:
>
> octave:9> pkg install control-2.4.1.tar.gz

this is for building and installing from source.


> Can anybody suggest to me what I am doing wrong?
>
> Thanks so much!!
Regards
Marco