Re: octave and octave-forge

[Olafur Jens Sigurdsson <ojs@klaki.net>]

Þann 2007-04-16, 10:31:49 (-0400) skrifaði Kamaraju S Kusumanchi:
> Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote:
> 
> > Hi, I am trying to use octave2.9 in unstable (version 2.9.10 atm) but
> > each time I try to call a function from octave-forge I get something
> > like "error: dmlread' undefined near line 2 column 1", none of the
> > octave variables like DEFAULT_LOADPATH or LOADPATH are set, at least I
> > get an empty respons by issuing getenv(DEFAULT_LOADPATH) and if I try
> > to set LOADPATH by issuing
> > 
> 
> octave 2.9.10 does not work well with the octave-forge that is currently in
> Debian. My suggestion would be to install octave 2.9.9 and see if it works.

Well, works well after issuing
addpath(genpath("/usr/share/octave/site/api-v22/m/"))
which is the directory where all the forge functions are kept.

Or what do you mean by "does not work well"? I saw the bug report that
said the same thing but no clarification was given.

Oli