Re: 5.1.0 pre-release

[Nicholas Jankowski]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 9:27 PM bewantbe <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On 3/1/19 1:51 AM, PhilipNienhuis wrote:
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> These errors come about because you just didn't need to install the signal
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> package. It is already included, complete with all fixes for those errors
> you saw.
> All you have to do is type (in the Octave terminal):
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> pkg load signal
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> I probably had the same problem, the package seems exist (in 
> \mingw64\share\octave\packages), but Octave do not know it (pkg list is 
> empty). I have to do 'pkg rebuild' to make them work.
>
> The binaries I run is unziped from octave-5.1.0-w64.7z.

That's the normal procedure.  The download page was recently updated
with details about the included packages with a link to the
installation instructions on the wiki.  After unzipping, you should
run 'post_install.bat' which will both update the font cache and do
the pkg rebuild.