Re: package install error

[Mike Miller]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Clinton Winant wrote:
> Trying to install package signal, this requires various other package which,
> in turn require package struct.

Why not simply "apt-get install octave-signal" from the Ubuntu repositories?

> When attempting to install package struct:
>
> octave:1> pkg install struct-1.0.10.tar.gz
> make: /usr/bin/mkoctfile: Command not found
> make: *** [fields2cell.oct] Error 127
> 'make' returned the following error: make: Entering directory
> `/tmp/oct-dYlbKf/struct-1.0.10/src'
> /usr/bin/mkoctfile -s fields2cell.cc
> make: Leaving directory `/tmp/oct-dYlbKf/struct-1.0.10/src'
> error: called from `pkg>configure_make' in file
> /usr/share/octave/3.6.2/m/pkg/pkg.m near line 1391, column 9
> error: called from:
> error:   /usr/share/octave/3.6.2/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 834, column 5
> error:   /usr/share/octave/3.6.2/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 383, column 9
> octave:1> pkg install struct-1.0.10.tar.gz
> make: /usr/bin/mkoctfile: Command not found
> make: *** [fields2cell.oct] Error 127
> 'make' returned the following error: make: Entering directory
> `/tmp/oct-7yyCVL/struct-1.0.10/src'
> /usr/bin/mkoctfile -s fields2cell.cc
> make: Leaving directory `/tmp/oct-7yyCVL/struct-1.0.10/src'
> error: called from `pkg>configure_make' in file
> /usr/share/octave/3.6.2/m/pkg/pkg.m near line 1391, column 9
> error: called from:
> error:   /usr/share/octave/3.6.2/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 834, column 5
> error:   /usr/share/octave/3.6.2/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 383, column 9
> octave:1>
>
>
> Other package install have failed because of missing dependencies, but not
> in this way.

See the Octave FAQ:

http://wiki.octave.org/FAQ#I_cannot_install_a_package._Octave_complains_about_a_missing_mkoctfile.

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mike