Installing the symbolic package

[Samuel Dupree]

I'm attempting to install the symbolic package ver. 2.2.2 with Octave 
3.8.0 on a MacBook Pro running Mac OS X v. 10.10.5. I'm running the 
Octave binary, Octave-gui.app, and I'm running version 2.7.x of the 
Python environment I'm running is installed under Anaconda.

The command window in the Octave-gui shows that Octave is picking up the 
wrong version of Python. It's picking up /usr/bin/python as opposed to 
/Users/user/anaconda. The command window session is given below.


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warning: /Users/user/octave/integration-1.0.7/PKG_ADD: possible 
Matlab-style short-circuit operator at line 9, column 32
warning: function /Users/user/octave/plot-1.0.8/colstyle.m shadows a 
core library function
>> pkg install symbolic-2.2.2.tar.gz
configure: error: failed to find required module sympy
checking for python... /usr/bin/python
checking python module: sympy... no

pkg: error running the configure script for symbolic.
error: called from 'configure_make' in file 
/usr/local/octave/3.8.0/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/private/configure_make.m near 
line 72, column 9
error: called from:
error: 
/usr/local/octave/3.8.0/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/private/install.m at 
line 199, column 5
error: /usr/local/octave/3.8.0/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 
394, column 9
>>


My first question is how do I point Octave to the path 
/Users/user/anaconda to pickup the right version of Python? My second 
question is, do I need to be concerned with the two warning messages, 
and if so, what do I need to do?

Any ideas?

Sam Dupree.