Re: error: cellfun: C must be a cell array

[Jeff]

Doug Stewart <doug.dastew <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> I did on ubuntu 15.10 and 
>  hg id
> 85dfb551e4cd tip  <at> default
> 
> (today's build)
> and got
> 
> 
> pkg update
> error: cellfun: C must be a cell array
> error: called from
>     get_forge_pkg at line 72 column 14
>     pkg at line 562 column 27
> >> pkg list
> Package Name  | Version | Installation directory
> --------------+---------+-----------------------
> >>
> 
> From a different question I see this answer:
> 
> This non-obvious error message means that you are trying to install a
> package that doesn't exist:
> 
>   >> pkg install -forge nosuchpackage
>   ## same error
> 
> So I have sci_cosim installed and it is not yet on -forge.
> 
> Is this why I get this error message. 
> Should pkg update be smarter and only do the names that are on -forge?
> Doug
> 
> -- 
> DAS
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
What was the fix? I'm trying to install my first package in Octave (installed 
the latest version yesterday). I have no idea where I'm going wrong.  As far 
as I can tell, the image file name must be wrong but i've tried different 
packages and different variations for the file extensions.  PLEASE HELP!

My machine is running OS X El Capitan version 10.11.3

in the Octave command window i get...

>> pkg install -forge io-2.4.1.tar.gz
error: cellfun: C must be a cell array
error: called from
    get_forge_pkg at line 72 column 14
    get_forge_download at line 26 column 12
    pkg at line 393 column 29
>>

Thanks,
Jeff