Re: Installing octave on WinXP

[LUK ShunTim]

Peter Tenenbaum wrote:

> I recently installed cygwin and octave on a Windows XP workstation
> according to the instructions at the octave.org website.
>
> Octave starts up but can't do many things; as far as I can tell, the
> problem has to do with search paths not being set up properly.  It looks
> like the octave functionality is spread out over a rather large directory
> tree, and the default configuration of the program does not correctly
> handle this.
>
> Can you offer some advice on how to get octave set up properly on my PC?
>
> -PT

Did you also get octave-forge?

If you install cygwin just to use octave, perhaps you can consider the 
win installer here

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2888

which will give you less trouble.

Regards,
ST


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How to fund new projects:  http://www.octave.org/funding.html
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