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Re: OsX Mavericks GSL install error


From: Marius Schamschula
Subject: Re: OsX Mavericks GSL install error
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 16:35:03 -0600

On Feb 16, 2014, at 4:12 PM, seub4604 <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
>>> GSL is the Gnu Scientific Library, which you should install from GNU's
>>> sources or otherwise. Octave-GSL package is basically an interface to GSL,
>>> and you can try installing it using "pkg install" in Octave once you have
>>> GSL.
> 
> I'm not fully sure I understand still. So, what I've done is go to the GSL
> website, downloaded gsl-1.16.tar.gz, and in Octave typed: 
>>> pkg install gsl-1.16.tar.gz 
> this has given me the error message: 
>>> package is missing file: DESCRIPTION 
> error: called from 'verify_directory' in file
> /usr/local/octave/3.8.0/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/private/verify_directory.mnear
> line 30, column 7 
> error: called from: 
> error:   /usr/local/octave/3.8.0/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/private/install.m
> at line 146, column 5 
> error:   /usr/local/octave/3.8.0/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 394,
> column 9
> 
> Carne seemed to be saying that gsl-1.16.tar.gz is not the actual package for
> GSL.  I'm really not terribly great with computers and and relatively new to
> Octave, so it will help me quite a bit if we could try to keep the technical
> terms at a minimum if possible. :)
> 

You first need to install the GNU gsl library.

To do this you need the following commands:

tar zxf pkg install gsl-1.16.tar.gz

cd gsl-1.16

./configure

make

sudo make install

Then you install the octave package:

within octave

pkg install -forge gsl-1.0.8.tar.gz

--
Marius Schamschula





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