Re: Octave install from windows zip file

[Lester Anderson]

Problem solved!

pkg rebuild ....



On 6 September 2017 at 08:59, Lester Anderson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have just done a fresh install of Octave 4.2.1 using the zip file
> (octave-4.2.1-w64.zip), and that works fine. However, it has no access
> to installed packages:
>
> The packages folder is present, including the latest versions of them:
>
> C:\Octave\octave-4.2.1\share\octave\packages
>
> GNU Octave, version 4.2.1
> Copyright (C) 2017 John W. Eaton and others.
> This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
> ...
>
>>> pkg list
> no packages installed.
>>> pkg load communications
> error: package communications is not installed
> error: called from
>     load_packages at line 41 column 7
>     pkg at line 411 column 7
>>>
>
> Is there a configuration file to deal with packages?
>
> Cheers
> Lester