Re: Problem installing geometry1.6.0 onto Octave 3.6.4 Vista

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

--- On Wed, 2014/4/23, Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 8:07 AM, simulsys <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have tried to install the geometry-1.6.0 package on Octave 3.6.4 on
> > Windows Vista using:
> >
> > pkg install -forge geometry
> >
> > ...which failed with a cacophony of error messages saying the file did not
> > exist at that directory, and tried using a local copy of the full directory
> > of all the packages, setting addpath to the geometry-1.6.0 directory and
> > typing:
> >
> > pkg install geometry
> >
> > ...with no success.
> >
> > I tried the recommended "rebuild" sequence of commands, but also without
> > success.
> >
> > Am I missing something here? Can anyone help, please?
> >
> >
> >
Octave-3.6.4 on MinGW ships geometry-1.6.0 and Octave-3.6.4 on MSVC ships 
geometry-1.7.0.

You need not install geometry package from source.

Please read carefully Octave-Wiki.
http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_Microsoft_Windows#Files_for_manual_installation

Regards

Tatsuro