Re: installing packages

[PhilipNienhuis]

tmacchant wrote
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>> To: gerald Harrison; 'Alexander Hansen'
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>> Subject: RE: installing packages
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>> --- gharriso
>>> Thanks to all of you that helped. I think it was the 
>> "build_packages" that was what I was missing. They say u can't 
>> teach an old dog new tricks, wrong, you did. I'm off to relearn the math
>> I 
>> started studying in 1948 and some they didn't teach back in those days. 
>> Gerry
>>> 
>> "build_packages" does not install the symbolic package. Do not you 
>> want to install the symbolic package?
>> 
>> Tatsuro
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>> From: gerald Harrison 
>> To: tmacchant
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>> Date: 2015/8/11, Tue 23:10
>> Subject: RE: installing packages
>> 
>>T hanks for your concern. I was installing an other package and I think
that did 
>> not install until I installed "build". Did manage after that to 
>> install symbolic. Thanks Gerry
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> I remember you have installed python 3.5.
> Rocketsound already wrote the instruction
> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Symbolic-package-for-Octave-tp4670576p4670584.html
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> 
> 1) Go to https://www.python.org/ and download Python 2.7.9 for Windows
> then install it 
> 2) Open a terminal with admin rights (To do so open the start menu,
> enter cmd, right-click the entry, and select "Run as administrator",
> confirm the following dialog) 
> 3) Type pip install sympy (FYI: pip is the official package manager of
> Python and it does all the magic for you. In this case it installs sympy,
> a Python library that the symbolic toolbox depends on.) 
> 4) Next start Octave and type pkg install -forge -auto symbolic
> 5) (Type pkg help to learn more about Octave's package manager) 
> 
> 
> Notes
> * Instruction 1) can be omitted if you have install python 3.5.
> * Before 2)  you should set path to C:\Python35 and C:\Python35\Scripts.
> For the way to set path, You can search it by the keywords "windows"
> "path" "control panel" "windows X" (X is Vista, 7 or 8) on the web.

Why not simply download from:

https://github.com/cbm755/octsympy/releases

the complete bundle:

https://github.com/cbm755/octsympy/releases/download/v2.2.2/symbolic-win-py-bundle-2.2.2.zip

and install it simply like

pkg install symbolic-win-py-bundle-2.2.2.zip

?

All required files are in this bundle, and AFAIK some python
executable/library is bundled in the mxe-octave installer (it is built with
mxe) so the basics are there.

Maybe this symbolic bundle had better be added to the mxe-installer anyway;
that's what I do with my own mxe builds.

Philip




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