Re: I cannot install a toolbox I downloaded

[Przemek Klosowski]

On 03/07/2018 11:42 AM, Phenyo Moletsane wrote:
> I have just downloaded M5PrimeLab toolbox, and struggling to install 
> it on octave.
>
> I am using the following command:
> pkg install M5PrimeLab.zip
>
> I get the following error
>
> package is missing file: COPYING
> error: called from
>     install>verify_directory at line 335 column 7
>     install at line 109 column 9
>     pkg at line 394 column 9
If you're talking about http://www.cs.rtu.lv/jekabsons/regression.html 
then it's simply an archive of .m files, so just unzip it into a 
directory in your path and start using it.  Read the DESCRIPTION.txt 
file: the section on Matlab installation essentially tells you what 
needs to be set in Octave as well.

The pkg command is really intended for installation of packages that 
require native code compilation, so you don't need it here.