Re: installing packages

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

> -----Original Message-----

> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2015 4:25 AM
> To: gerald Harrison; 'Alexander Hansen'
> Cc: 'Octave users list'
> Subject: RE: installing packages
> 
> --- gharriso
>> Thanks to all of you that helped. I think it was the 
> "build_packages" that was what I was missing. They say u can't 
> teach an old dog new tricks, wrong, you did. I'm off to relearn the math I 
> started studying in 1948 and some they didn't teach back in those days. 
> Gerry
>> 
> "build_packages" does not install the symbolic package. Do not you 
> want to install the symbolic package?
> 
> Tatsuro


----- Original Message -----
> From: gerald Harrison 
> To: tmacchant
> Cc: 
> Date: 2015/8/11, Tue 23:10
> Subject: RE: installing packages
> 
>T hanks for your concern. I was installing an other package and I think that 
>did 
> not install until I installed "build". Did manage after that to 
> install symbolic. Thanks Gerry



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I remember you have installed python 3.5.
Rocketsound already wrote the instruction
http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Symbolic-package-for-Octave-tp4670576p4670584.html


1) Go to https://www.python.org/ and download Python 2.7.9 for Windows then 
install it 
2) Open a terminal with admin rights (To do so open the start menu, enter cmd, 
right-click the entry, and select "Run as administrator", confirm the following 
dialog) 
3) Type pip install sympy (FYI: pip is the official package manager of Python 
and it does all the magic for you. In this case it installs sympy, a Python 
library that the symbolic toolbox depends on.) 
4) Next start Octave and type pkg install -forge -auto symbolic
5) (Type pkg help to learn more about Octave's package manager) 


Notes
* Instruction 1) can be omitted if you have install python 3.5.
* Before 2)  you should set path to C:\Python35 and C:\Python35\Scripts.
For the way to set path, You can search it by the keywords "windows" "path" 
"control panel" "windows X" (X is Vista, 7 or 8) on the web.

Tatsuro