Re: support for URL transfers not available, is this a limitation in Octave, how is this possible?

[Nicholas Jankowski]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Jonathan Camilleri <address@hidden> wrote:

I tried pkg install -forge taylor at http://octave-online.net/#.

error: support for url transfers was disabled when Octave was built
error: called from:
error:   /usr/local/share/octave/3.8.2/m/pkg/private/get_forge_pkg.m at line 40, column 14
error:   /usr/local/share/octave/3.8.2/m/pkg/private/get_forge_download.m at line 26, column 12
error:   /usr/local/share/octave/3.8.2/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 385, column 29

Called at http://octave-online.net/#.

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Jonathan Camilleri

it's possibly because it's not your system. you're asking to install software on someone else's computer, and they turned that off.  there is a feedback

Second, there is no 'taylor' package.  taylor is a function in the symbolic package.  so the command if you were able to run it would be:

>> pkg install -forge symbolic

but that won't work either.

There is a feedback link in the menu on that page (click the three-line button in the upper right).  You could request they update the symbolic package, as they are a version behind.  Still not certain that will fix the message you got in the other thread.

Nick J.