Re: Unable to install packages.

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:

It appears that your path has been unset.

Try quitting and run octave again as ...

octave --norc

This will avoid read any of the system or user initialization files at startup.

After that check to see what "ver" gives. You can also type "OCTAVE_VERSION" ... that should always work.

If octave functions properly when you start is as "octave --norc" it is likely there is something wrong with your ~/.octaverc file.

Ben

On Jan 21, 2009, at 6:01 PM, Gregory Mohammed wrote:

Hello,

I get this:

octave:1> ver
error: `ver' undefined near line 1 column 1
octave:1>

Will check my install, but any ideas you have, please send my way!

Thanks,
Greg.

Its always a good idea to tell us what version of octave you're running.

What do you get when you type "ver" at Octave's command prompt?
Ben

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:

On Jan 20, 2009, at 10:10 PM, address@hidden wrote:

Hello,

I have installed octave on my Kubuntu 64 linux box.

I have downloaded a number of packages I would like to install into octave. However, when I do <pkg install "package_name.tar.gz"> at the octave prompt, I get a message:

octave:1> pkg install ad-1.0.4.tar.gz
parse error:

syntax error

>>> pkg install ad-1.0.4.tar.gz
^

octave:1>

Can you help me rectify this?

Thanks.

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From:	Gregory Mohammed
Subject:	Re: Unable to install packages.
Date:	Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:45:16 -0700