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Re: OsX Mavericks GSL install error
From: |
Marius Schamschula |
Subject: |
Re: OsX Mavericks GSL install error |
Date: |
Sun, 16 Feb 2014 16:35:03 -0600 |
On Feb 16, 2014, at 4:12 PM, seub4604 <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>> GSL is the Gnu Scientific Library, which you should install from GNU's
>>> sources or otherwise. Octave-GSL package is basically an interface to GSL,
>>> and you can try installing it using "pkg install" in Octave once you have
>>> GSL.
>
> I'm not fully sure I understand still. So, what I've done is go to the GSL
> website, downloaded gsl-1.16.tar.gz, and in Octave typed:
>>> pkg install gsl-1.16.tar.gz
> this has given me the error message:
>>> package is missing file: DESCRIPTION
> error: called from 'verify_directory' in file
> /usr/local/octave/3.8.0/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/private/verify_directory.mnear
> line 30, column 7
> error: called from:
> error: /usr/local/octave/3.8.0/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/private/install.m
> at line 146, column 5
> error: /usr/local/octave/3.8.0/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 394,
> column 9
>
> Carne seemed to be saying that gsl-1.16.tar.gz is not the actual package for
> GSL. I'm really not terribly great with computers and and relatively new to
> Octave, so it will help me quite a bit if we could try to keep the technical
> terms at a minimum if possible. :)
>
You first need to install the GNU gsl library.
To do this you need the following commands:
tar zxf pkg install gsl-1.16.tar.gz
cd gsl-1.16
./configure
make
sudo make install
Then you install the octave package:
within octave
pkg install -forge gsl-1.0.8.tar.gz
--
Marius Schamschula
- OsX Mavericks GSL install error, seub4604, 2014/02/13
- Re: OsX Mavericks GSL install error, Carnë Draug, 2014/02/14
- Re: OsX Mavericks GSL install error, seub4604, 2014/02/16
- Re: OsX Mavericks GSL install error, Nir Krakauer, 2014/02/16
- Re: OsX Mavericks GSL install error, seub4604, 2014/02/16
- Re: OsX Mavericks GSL install error, Nir Krakauer, 2014/02/16
- Re: OsX Mavericks GSL install error,
Marius Schamschula <=
- Re: OsX Mavericks GSL install error, seub4604, 2014/02/16
- Re: OsX Mavericks GSL install error, Nir Krakauer, 2014/02/16
- Re: OsX Mavericks GSL install error, seub4604, 2014/02/16
- Re: OsX Mavericks GSL install error, Nir Krakauer, 2014/02/16
- Re: OsX Mavericks GSL install error, seub4604, 2014/02/16
- Re: OsX Mavericks GSL install error, Ben Abbott, 2014/02/16