Re: pkg problems

[Terry Duell]

Hello Carnë,

On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 15:01:25 +1100, Carnë Draug <address@hidden>  
wrote:

> On 24 November 2012 04:48, Terry Duell <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Can someone please suggest the 'proper' process (assuming that there is  
> > one) that I should follow to get to an updated set of packages, so  
> > 'pkg' knows what it should know and Octave paths are correct?
>
> My suggestion would be the following:
>
> 1 -  remove all packages installed from the repos.
> 2 - remove your ~/octave directory (well, make a copy of it somewhere
> else in case in something goes wrong). This are your local
> installation of packages.
> 3 - remove ~/.octave_packages (your database with locally installed  
> packages)
> 4 - remove OCTAVE_HOME()/share/octave/packages and octave_config_info
> ("libdir")/octave/packages (get the value of OCTAVE_HOME and
> octave_config_info ("libdir") from an Octave prompt). These are global
> packages you may have installed as root
> 5 - remove OCTAVE_HOME()/share/octave/octave_packages (your database
> for globally installed packages)
>
> When you start Octave now, you should now have a clean start. It
> should also be possible to rebuild the databases with "pkg rebuild"
> but I never tried it.

OK, I followed the above to clean out all my packages and other files as  
suggested, then installed all the packages I required using 'pkg install  
-forge ...', and that has all gone well, although there were a Huge number  
of warnings when installing the control package, and a lesser number for  
odepkg, but I guess that OK, I have yet to test.

When I now start Octave I get many warnings (addpath) referring to old  
packages that were removed from my ~/octave dir.
If I run 'path' none of these old paths are included in the output. All  
these old paths are included in my .octaverc file.
Is there a simple way that these old paths can removed? I am assuming that  
as 'path' doesn't know about them I can't use 'rmpath()'.

Thanks for your help

Cheers,
--
Regards,
Terry Duell