Re: Help-octave Digest, Vol 68, Issue 71

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On 5 December 2011 20:01, Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Joe Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I saved the .deb file from the link you provided.   I then ran
>>
>> sudo dpkg -i octave.....deb
>>
>> Again, I have no idea what I am doing so this is all a guess on my part
>> without having detailed instructions.
>>
>> It seems to create a directory under the /usr/share area.    If I run
>> QtOctave, it still uses the old Octave.  So I manually tried to force the
>> link for Octave.  This seems to allow QtOctave to find the new version, but
>> there must be more to it.  When I check the version, it shows all the
>> packages I had installed with the older version.  When I tried to run a m
>> file that uses a package, it fails.    Any details on how to install this
>> version of Octave would be helpful.   Again, I am not a UNIX user or a
>> programmer, so any details would be great.  Thanks
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden>
>> To: Joe Smith <address@hidden>
>> Cc: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
>> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 2:32 PM
>> Subject: Re: Help-octave Digest, Vol 68, Issue 71
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Joe Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Mike,
>>>> I am glad to hear it worked for you. I have never tried to compile for
>>>> 64bits, so I wouldn't be able to help you. I am forwarding your e-mail
>>>> to the octave-help mailing list, maybe somebody there can give you
>>>> some advice.
>>>>
>>>> A colleague told me today that he managed to compile 3.4.3 for Ubuntu
>>>> 10.04 64bits, so I will ask him tomorrow to prepare a deb package.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
>>>> -----
>>>> PhD Student
>>>> University of Z?rich
>>>> http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/
>>>>
>>>>Hi Mike,
>>>>My colleague kindly prepared a package using checkinstall for Ubuntu
>>>>10.04 64bits.
>>>>Please try it out
>>>>http://ubuntuone.com/4sGNUuh9ykZdadEX0QPtY2
>>>>
>>>>md5 = 12269c3caee06b0a3fbd74006c7074a4
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
>>>>-----
>>>>PhD Student
>>>>University of Z?rich
>>>>http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/
>>> Thanks for these posts!  I would be very interested in knowing the details
>>> of how this was built.   I tried the link provided but it does not appear
>>> valid.
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> Hi Joe,
>>
>> The link, as far as I can tell, is working.
>> the package was created using checkinstall
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CheckInstall
>>
>> --
>> M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
>> -----
>> PhD Student
>> University of Zürich
>> http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/
>>
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> I do not know what is the problem exactly. I suggest the following
> (since you can always install 3.2 from apt there is no risk on this)
>
> 1. Uninstall octave 3.2
> sudo apt-get purge octave3.2
>
> 2. Re-install the package as you did
>
> 3. Test the installation from the command line.
> 3.a Open a terminal and type
> octave
>
> The version of Octave is given in the text printed when it initializes.
>
> Also, we usually recommend not to use QtOctave cause ti is old,
> abandoned and buggy. You can use gedit + plugins to make an excellent
> IDE (search the mailing list archive for "gedit" to learn more).

For use of gedit with octave see
http://octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gedit (this can be further
extend but the basics are already there).

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