RE: installing packages

[gerald Harrison]

Alexander H, I’m not able to understand your comment. Could you give me a little more detail on the process. I have a file “symbolic-2.2.2.tar.gz” on my current path. I downloaded this from: Help; Octave Packages; Packages, Symbolic. My current path is c:\users\Gerald\downloads.

            I tried “pkg install symbolic-2.2.2.tar.gz” and also tried “’pkg install symbolic” and got errors. I tried to download a different package and had same problem. Thanks Gerry

From: Alexander Hansen [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2015 8:04 PM
To: gerald Harrison
Cc: Octave users list
Subject: Re: installing packages

 

 

On Aug 6, 2015, at 16:54, Nicholas Jankowski <address@hidden> wrote:

 

On Aug 6, 2015 7:40 PM, "gerald Harrison" <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Nicholas, Thanks for the reply. Still get same error. Any idea of how to set the path so it knows where to look for package?
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> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden] On Behalf Of Nicholas Jankowski
> Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2015 4:35 PM
> To: gerald Harrison
> Cc: help
> Subject: Re: installing packages
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> On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 11:22 PM, gerald Harrison <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Trying to install symbolic toolbox in win 7 64bit. Installed python 3.5.0.4.
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> Error msg: pkg install -forge symbolic-2.2.2.tar.g2
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> error: get_forge_pkg: package not found: "symbolic-2.2.2.tar.g2". M
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> aybe you meant "symbolic?"
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> error: called from
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>     get_forge_pkg at line 74 column 9
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>     get_forge_download at line 26 column 12
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>     pkg at line 393 column 29. Any help would be appreciated. Gerry
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> should that be tar.gz  not tar.g2?
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The current working directory needs to be the same place that you saved the file. You can change the working directory with the cd command. Typing PWD will tell you the current working directory. In the new octave GUI you can use the file / folder tree in the upper left to navigate to the file.

Oh, and please keep the mailing list in the email chain.

Nick J.

When you use the -forge option, Octave expects that you are giving the name of a package, and it will download the current version to build and install.  There isn’t a package named "symbolic-2.2.2.tar.g2” or even "symbolic-2.2.2.tar.gz”.  

 

Leave the -forge flag off if you want to install from a local source archive.

 

—AKH

 

 

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