Re: Availability of GNU Octave 3.8 on Windows

[Philip Nienhuis]

rf wrote
> 
> <snip>
> After I got it working with the batch file as Philip suggested I
> discovered
> what the real problem was. I had installed the program as my normal user
> on
> Windows7 but I had to authenticate as an admin user to install and so
> Octave got installed properly for the admin user. When I logged in as
> admin
> I saw the shortcuts on the desktop and in the start menu and when I
> clicked
> on the one with GUI it started no problem. So I copied the proper
> shortcuts
> from there over to my normal user account and now it starts properly there
> too. The proper shortcut to start the GUI version is somewhat different
> than what I was using initially. I just called "octave.exe --force-gui".
> The proper shortcut calls a different executable to start.
> 
> So the problem seemed to be really that the installer does not have the
> option to install for all users rather than just for the user doing the
> installing (which was the admin user in my case). The way it is now I have
> shortcuts on my desktop that work but Octave still does not show up in my
> start menu at all.

While this issue already has been mentioned in passing in the maintainers ML
(https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2014-January/038606.html),
it may be a good idea to enter a bug report for this:
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=octave




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