Re: installing io (and other) packages

[PhilipNienhuis]

noel hughes wrote
> I will be very grateful if someone can guide me to successfully install
> Octave packages.
> 
> I am running under ubuntu linux, I have Octave 4.0 installed.  When I
> execute, from the terminal window,
>  java -version,    I get:
> openjdk version "1.8.0_171"
> OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build
> 1.8.0_171-8u171-b11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1-b11)
> OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.171-b11, mixed mode)
> 
> in Octave, this command
> pkg list           replies with this (no mention of java):
> Package Name  | Version | Installation directory
> --------------+---------+-----------------------
>           io  |  2.4.11 | /home/nhughes/octave/io-2.4.11

Installation seems to be OK.
However to use the functions in the io package you'd also have to load the
package by issuing the command:

pkg load io

After that, the output of pkg list should mention something long the lines
of:

                io *|  2.4.11 |
...\dist\octave\share\octave\packages\io-2.4.11

(note the asterisk which means that the package has been loaded).

HTH
Philip



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