Re: installing octave 2143

[David Owen]

Hi, Henry,
Thanks for your help. I got another file ver 2.1.42 from
http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~adler/octave
from Paul Kienzle which I am going to try right now. I'll let everyone know what
happens.
Thanks again
David Owen

"Henry F. Mollet" wrote:

> I'm not qualified to make a suggestion but starting from scratch with a
> clean slate is probably a good idea.  I just wanted to let you know that for
> a novice like me, a binary made installation almost painless. In addition,
> I'm really trying to get going on octave installed on a Mac. Thanks to Fink
> I was able to do the installation on Mac and suggest that unless you know
> how to pre-compile, compile, and link a small source program you cannot
> expect to be successful with a big program like Octave.  You need a solid
> knowledge of Unix and/or C to understand all the steps needed or given in
> structions (i.e. Configuration files, make utitlity and more).
> Henry
>
> on 2/1/03 5:25 AM, David Owen at address@hidden wrote:
>
> > Thanks very much. Actually I have now installed ver.2.1.36 and it appears 
> > that
> > Cygwin is now not working properly. Should I UNinstall both then install
> > 2.1.36
> > then Cygwin? I shall be happy for suggestions.
> > Regards
> > David Owen
> >
> > "Henry F. Mollet" wrote:
> >
> >> I might be easier to install the last version for which a binary is
> >> available. Then you get an .exe file and even I was able to install 2.1.36
> >> on a PC with Windows 95. I did not even know about the Linux Cygwin but 
> >> that
> >> was  installed also. Plus gnuplot 3.8i with menus (File, Plot, Functions,
> >> General, Axes, Chart, Styles, 3d, Help) was installed as well.
> >> Henry
> >> on 1/31/03 7:30 AM, David Owen at address@hidden wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi, Everybody,
> >>> I have a problem with installing Octave under Cygwin. I have already
> >>> installed Cygwin. Could someone tell me where to find the detailed
> >>> procedure or tell me exactly what to do. I have downloaded Octave 2143
> >>> and I am runnung Windows 98 SE.
> >>> Thanks very much. I will certainly appreciate it.
> >>> David Owen
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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How to fund new projects:  http://www.octave.org/funding.html
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