Re: Not able to install io package

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

----- Original Message -----
> From: jerome1212 
> To: help-octave
> Cc: 
> Date: 2014/6/22, Sun 13:24
> Subject: Not able to install io package
> 
> Dear all, I am not able to get the io package installed properly.  I am using
> the Octave 3.8 version and downloaded the io package at the following site: 
> http://octave.sourceforge.net/io/index.html.  The package name is
> io-2.2.2.tar.gz .  Within the GUI I navigate to the folder of this
> downloaded file and type the following into the command line:
> 
>>>  pkg install -forge io
> 
> I don't get an error and see the following:
> 
>                                                                               
>   
>     
> For information about changes from previous versions of the io package, run
> 'news io
> '.
> 
> When I try to use a function from that package (e.g. xlsread) I get the
> following error:
> 
>>>  help xlsread
> error: help: Functions for spreadsheet style I/O (.xls .xlsx .sxc .ods .dbf
> .wk1
> etc.) are provided in the io package. See `http://octave.sf.net/io/'.
> 
> Please read `http://www.octave.org/missing.html' to learn how you can
> contribute missing functionality.
> 
> Any ideas what is going wrong here and how to fix it?
> 
> Thanks,



Please show what OS (Windows 7 or 8 ..., MacOS, Ubuntu,..... ) you use
I assume that you are using octave-3.8.1 (MXE) on windows, please carry out the 
below

octave> cd C:\octave\Octave-3.8.1\src
octave> build_packages


Wait for while the install will finish.

After that please confirm 

octave> pkg list

The default install, io pakcage is not auto-loaded.

If you want it to be auto loaded, please execute

octave> pkg rebuild -auto io

and restart octave.

HTH

Tatsuro