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Re: symbolic toolbox installation
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Markus Feldmann |
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Re: symbolic toolbox installation |
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Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:02:45 +0200 |
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Geordie McBain wrote:
>> sorry for this 1000's Question.
>
> No worries.
>
>> I am using Linux Debian and wanna use octave with the symbolic
>> toolbox, therefore i installed,
>> octave-forge - Version: 2006.01.28-2
>>
>> but it seems that there is no sym command in octave, only:
>> octave2.9:1> sym
>> sym2poly symerr symfsolve symlink
>> octave2.9:1>
>>
>> What have i to do to get this symbolic toolbox to work?
>
> I'm not sure octave-forge connects to octave2.9 in Debian (it's not on
> mine either); so: install octave2.1. (Isn't this a dependency of
> octave-forge in Debian? I thought it was.) Then start it with
> octave2.1
>
> address@hidden:/tmp$ octave2.1 -q
> octave2.1:1> symbols
> octave2.1:2> x = sym ("x");
> octave2.1:3> differentiate (Sin (x), x)
> ans =
>
> cos(x)
> octave2.1:4>
I got it to work :-)
In 2.1 i can execute the sym command.
Doesn't know wherefore i do need the 2.9 package?
thanks
mfg Markus
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