Re: installing packages

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

----- Original Message -----

> From: PhilipNienhuis 
> To: help-octave
> Cc: 
> Date: 2015/8/13, Thu 00:42
> Subject: Re: installing packages
> 
>t macchant wrote
>>>  -----Original Message-----
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>>>  Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2015 4:25 AM
>>>  To: gerald Harrison; 'Alexander Hansen'
>>>  Cc: 'Octave users list'
>>>  Subject: RE: installing packages
>>>  
>>>  --- gharriso
>>>>  Thanks to all of you that helped. I think it was the 
>>>  "build_packages" that was what I was missing. They say u 
> can't 
>>>  teach an old dog new tricks, wrong, you did. I'm off to relearn the 
> math
>>>  I 
>>>  started studying in 1948 and some they didn't teach back in those 
> days. 
>>>  Gerry
>>>>  
>>>  "build_packages" does not install the symbolic package. Do 
> not you 
>>>  want to install the symbolic package?
>>>  
>>>  Tatsuro
>> 
>> 
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>>  From: gerald Harrison 
>>>  To: tmacchant
>>>  Cc: 
>>>  Date: 2015/8/11, Tue 23:10
>>>  Subject: RE: installing packages
>>>  
>>> T hanks for your concern. I was installing an other package and I think
> that did 
>>>  not install until I installed "build". Did manage after that 
> to 
>>>  install symbolic. Thanks Gerry
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>>  I remember you have installed python 3.5.
>>  Rocketsound already wrote the instruction
>> 
> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Symbolic-package-for-Octave-tp4670576p4670584.html
>> 
>> 
>>  1) Go to https://www.python.org/ and download Python 2.7.9 for Windows
>>  then install it 
>>  2) Open a terminal with admin rights (To do so open the start menu,
>>  enter cmd, right-click the entry, and select "Run as 
> administrator",
>>  confirm the following dialog) 
>>  3) Type pip install sympy (FYI: pip is the official package manager of
>>  Python and it does all the magic for you. In this case it installs sympy,
>>  a Python library that the symbolic toolbox depends on.) 
>>  4) Next start Octave and type pkg install -forge -auto symbolic
>>  5) (Type pkg help to learn more about Octave's package manager) 
>> 
>> 
>>  Notes
>>  * Instruction 1) can be omitted if you have install python 3.5.
>>  * Before 2)  you should set path to C:\Python35 
> and C:\Python35\Scripts.
>>  For the way to set path, You can search it by the keywords 
> "windows"
>>  "path" "control panel" "windows X" (X is 
> Vista, 7 or 8) on the web.
> 
> Why not simply download from:
> 
> https://github.com/cbm755/octsympy/releases
> 
> the complete bundle:
> 
> https://github.com/cbm755/octsympy/releases/download/v2.2.2/symbolic-win-py-bundle-2.2.2.zip
> 
> and install it simply like
> 
> pkg install symbolic-win-py-bundle-2.2.2.zip
> 
> ?
> 
> All required files are in this bundle, and AFAIK some python
> executable/library is bundled in the mxe-octave installer (it is built with
> mxe) so the basics are there.
> 
> Maybe this symbolic bundle had better be added to the mxe-installer anyway;
> that's what I do with my own mxe builds.
> 
> Philip
> 


I have tried "pkg install symbolic-win-py-bundle-2.2.2.zip" on octave 4.0.0 on 
my win 7 64 PC.
But it failed. 

http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Symbolic-package-for-Octave-tp4670576p4671654.html


Njank reported the failure is due to pre-installed python.
http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Symbolic-package-for-Octave-tp4670576p4671670.html


The original author have already installed the python so that I have informed 
him the other way.

Tatsuro