RE: Installing octave on Windows XP

[Christoffer Andin]

It was a .octaverc file in "C:\Documents and Settings"! I removed it and it
works like a charm. 

Thanks a million!
Christoffer

-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Nicholas
Jankowski
Sent: den 3 juli 2012 15:57
To: Christoffer Andin
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Installing octave on Windows XP

did the old version of Octave set Environment Variables that maybe didn't
get cleared?

If you right click on My Computer, Click Properties, Click on the Advanced
Tab, then the Environment Variables button.

check both user and system variables lists for anything that looks related
to the 3.0.3 install.

2nd option might be a user specific .octavrc file sitting somewhere (maybe
in your home user folder? can't remember where octave looks for .octaverc's
in windows)

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Christoffer Andin <address@hidden>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been using octave 3.0.3 for some time until I now decided to 
> install 3.6.1. I have followed the installation instructions 
> (extracted the files to C:\Octave\Octave3.6.1_gcc4.6.2). But when I 
> start octave it seems that there are dependencies from the old 3.0.3 
> installation. So I uninstalled 3.0.3 and after that I get a lot of 
> addpath warnings that directories don't exist (it searches for 
> packages and m-files from the 3.0.3 installation). Virtually no
command/function is recognized at the octave prompt either.
>
> I have searched for octave related keys in the registry and removed 
> all I could find, although they didn't seem too suspicious to me...
>
> I would be glad if anyone out there recognizes this error and has a 
> solution!
>
> Best regards,
> Christoffer
>
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