Re: installation of latest version of octave & packages

[Ben Abbott]

On Jun 13, 2011, at 6:28 PM, Eric Hulburd wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm a new user to Octave.  I originally downloaded the 'octave-3.4.0.tar.gz' 
> file from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/.  I didn't know what to do with a 
> .tar.gz file so I then downloaded it from here: 
> http://octave.sourceforge.net/.  This is version 3.2.4 and I was hoping to 
> install the io package from http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.php, so I 
> first have to get version 3.4.0.  
> 
> I tried pasting the octave-3.4.0.tar.gz file to my current directory and then 
> commanding 'pkg install octave-3.4.0.tar.gz' but after a while it just 
> returned a bunch of errors that I don't really understand.
> 
> Am I following the right procedures?  How do I install the latest version of 
> Octave using the tar.gz file and then install the io package?
> 
> Thanks much,
> Eric

The file 'octave-3.4.0.tar.gz' is a gnu-zipped. It contains the source files 
for 0ctave-3.4.

Is your computer running Windows? If so you'll need to install cygwin to run 
Octave-3.4 (or wait for the port to mingw to arrive).

        http://www.cygwin.com/

If you decide to install cygwin, be sure to avoid version 1.7.9. That version 
has a bug the prevents Octave's graphics from working.

Ben