Re: pkg problems

[Terry Duell]

On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 13:54:28 +1100, Carnë Draug <address@hidden>  
wrote:


> The fact that you needed to addpath manually already suggests that
> there's something wrong. You should have "pkg load" and "unload" take
> care of the paths for you. What packages have you installed? What does
> "pkg list" shows?


These are the packages I installed.

octave:3> pkg list
Package Name    | Version | Installation directory
----------------+---------+-----------------------
 combinatorics  |   2.0.0 | /home/terry/octave/combinatorics-2.0.0
       control *|   2.4.1 | /home/terry/octave/control-2.4.1
       general *|   1.3.2 | /home/terry/octave/general-1.3.2
       gnuplot  |   1.0.1 | /home/terry/octave/gnuplot-1.0.1
         image  |   2.0.0 | /home/terry/octave/image-2.0.0
            io *|  1.0.20 | /home/terry/octave/io-1.0.20
          java *|   1.2.9 | /home/terry/octave/java-1.2.9
linear-algebra  |   2.2.0 | /home/terry/octave/linear-algebra-2.2.0
 miscellaneous *|   1.2.0 | /home/terry/octave/miscellaneous-1.2.0
        odepkg *|   0.8.2 | /home/terry/octave/odepkg-0.8.2
         optim *|   1.2.2 | /home/terry/octave/optim-1.2.2
          plot *|   1.1.0 | /home/terry/octave/plot-1.1.0
        signal *|   1.2.0 | /home/terry/octave/signal-1.2.0
       specfun *|   1.1.0 | /home/terry/octave/specfun-1.1.0
    statistics *|   1.1.3 | /home/terry/octave/statistics-1.1.3
        struct *|  1.0.10 | /home/terry/octave/struct-1.0.10



> Remove (or comment out) that addpath line from your
> octaverc, start Octave again, and load the signal package only. Do you
> have a problem accessing its functions?

OK, I removed the addpath for all the above packages, then ran 'pkg load  
signal', and 'help pwelch' now runs as expected, so this may have put  
things in a bit better shape. It will take a bit of time to test/check it  
all properly, but at least it is looking a better than it was.

> Also, I know Debian has a file
> in /etc/octave.conf that used to mess up with my pkg. Does Fedora also
> has one (maybe in some other place)?

I don't know, I can't find anything like that in /etc here.

> For packages you want to load automatically at startup, the
> recommended way is to add a "pkg load pkgname" in your .octaverc file.
> You can have multiple in one line "pkg load pkgname1 pkgnam2
> pkgname3". For packages ones you don't want to load automatically, do
> nothing, and load them only whenever you need them.

OK, I will edit my .octaverc file, and hopefully that will work OK here.


Many thanks for your help, hopefully it will all be OK now.

Cheers,
--
Regards,
Terry Duell