Re: octave-forge newby install question

[Bill Denney]

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, the_verge wrote:

> Or, as an alternative, is there a way to have both octave 2.1 and octave 
> 2.9 installed, and have octave-forge work for both of them?  My linux 
> distribution (MEPIS) has access to Ubuntu repositories, which have 
> octave 2.1, octave 2.9.6, and octave-forge 2006.3.17-2 available. 
> However, octave-forge is only linked to octave2.1, (as a dependency) so 
> when I launch octave2.9, I don't have the octave-forge functionality.
>
> If I just go ahead and install octave2.9, octave2.1, and octave-forge, 
> is there something simple I can do (in my .octaverc file perhaps) so 
> that when I sart octave2.9, I get the full octave-forge functionality?

There are differences between 2.9 and 2.1 where many functions from 
octave-forge have been merged into 2.9, and so the same copy of 
octave-forge cannot be used for 2.1 and 2.9.  If your distribution does 
not come with a version of octave-forge that works with 2.9, you will need 
to make it yourself-- the version that works with 2.1 will not work (and 
will probably cause problems).

Bill

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