Worked just fine, many thanks! I wouldn't guess there was a package other than odepkg for solving ode's, since this was the only one I could find in the octave webpage. Best regards
On Dec 28, 2013, at 9:24 PM, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/28/13 11:41 AM, Paulo de Souza Mendes wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I am trying to install the octave package odepkg with no success. I have >> very little experience with all this, and so I would be very grateful if >> someone points out what I am doing wrong and how I should proceed. >> >> It seems that I need octave364-dev installed, but for some reason I >> didn't manage to have both octave and octave364-dev installed at the >> same time. Next I describe my attempt in detail. >> >> After downloading odepkg-0.8.4.tar, my first step in this attempt was, >> within octave: >> >> pkg install ~/Downloads/odepkg-0.8.4.tar >> >> I got: >> >> sh: /sw/bin/mkoctfile-3.6.4: No such file or directory >> warning: unable to find mkoctfile in expected location: >> '/sw/bin/mkoctfile-3.6.4' >> warning: mkoctfile exited with failure status >> . >> . >> . >> checking for mkoctfile... /sw/bin/mkoctfile-3.6.4 >> error: called from 'pkg>configure_make' in file >> /sw/share/octave/3.6.4/m/pkg/pkg.m near line 1373, column 9 >> error: called from: >> error: /sw/share/octave/3.6.4/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 827, column 5 >> error: /sw/share/octave/3.6.4/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 383, column 9 >> >> I googled this problem and got the impression that I need to install >> octave364-dev. To this end, I tried: >> >> fink install octave364-dev >> >> and got: >> >> Password: >> Information about 8222 packages read in 0 seconds. >> The following package will be installed or updated: >> octave364-dev >> The following 2 additional packages will be installed: >> octave364 octave364-shlibs >> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y >> Reading buildlock packages... >> Could not resolve inconsistent dependencies! >> >> Fink isn't sure how to install the above packages safely. You may be >> able to fix things by running: >> >> fink scanpackages >> sudo apt-get update >> sudo apt-get install octave364-dev=3.6.4-9 octave364-shlibs=3.6.4-9 >> octave364=3.6.4-9 >> >> Failed: Fink::SysState: Could not resolve inconsistent dependencies >> >> >> I followed the suggestion given in the error message above: >> >> fink scanpackages >> >> Password: >> Updating the list of locally available binary packages. >> Scanning dists/local/main/binary-darwin-x86_64 >> Scanning dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64 >> >> sudo apt-get update >> >> Reading Package Lists... Done >> Building Dependency Tree... Done >> >> sudo apt-get install octave364-dev=3.6.4-9 octave364-shlibs=3.6.4-9 >> octave364=3.6.4-9 >> >> Reading Package Lists... Done >> Building Dependency Tree... Done >> The following packages will be REMOVED: >> octave-atlas octave364-atlas octave364-atlas-shlibs >> The following NEW packages will be installed: >> octave364 octave364-dev octave364-shlibs >> 0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded. >> Need to get 0B/10.6MB of archives. After unpacking 3301kB will be used. >> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] >> (Reading database ... 53044 files and directories currently installed.) >> Removing octave-atlas ... >> install-info(octave.info): deleting entry `* Octave: (octave) ...' >> Removing octave364-atlas ... >> Removing octave364-atlas-shlibs ... >> Selecting previously deselected package octave364-shlibs. >> (Reading database ... 51914 files and directories currently installed.) >> Unpacking octave364-shlibs (from >> .../octave364-shlibs_3.6.4-9_darwin-x86_64.deb) ... >> Selecting previously deselected package octave364. >> Unpacking octave364 (from .../octave364_3.6.4-9_darwin-x86_64.deb) ... >> Selecting previously deselected package octave364-dev. >> Unpacking octave364-dev (from >> .../octave364-dev_3.6.4-9_darwin-x86_64.deb) ... >> Setting up octave364-shlibs (3.6.4-9) ... >> >> Setting up octave364 (3.6.4-9) ... >> >> Setting up octave364-dev (3.6.4-9) ... >> Clearing dependency_libs of .la files being installed >> >> Everything went fine, except that the octave has been removed. I >> proceeded to reinstall it: >> >> fink install octave-atlas >> >> Password: >> Information about 8222 packages read in 1 seconds. >> The following package will be installed or updated: >> octave-atlas >> The following 2 additional packages will be installed: >> octave364-atlas octave364-atlas-shlibs >> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] >> Reading buildlock packages... >> Could not resolve inconsistent dependencies! >> >> Fink isn't sure how to install the above packages safely. You may be >> able to fix things by running: >> >> fink scanpackages >> sudo apt-get update >> sudo apt-get install octave-atlas=3.6.4-9 >> octave364-atlas-shlibs=3.6.4-9 octave364-atlas=3.6.4-9 >> >> Failed: Fink::SysState: Could not resolve inconsistent dependencies >> >> I.e. I got an error message analogous to the one I got when tried to >> install octave364-dev through fink. Again I followed the suggestion >> given in the error message: >> >> fink scanpackages >> >> Updating the list of locally available binary packages. >> Scanning dists/local/main/binary-darwin-x86_64 >> Scanning dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64 >> >> sudo apt-get update >> >> Reading Package Lists... Done >> Building Dependency Tree... Done >> >> sudo apt-get install octave-atlas=3.6.4-9 octave364-atlas-shlibs=3.6.4-9 >> octave364-atlas=3.6.4-9 >> >> Reading Package Lists... Done >> Building Dependency Tree... Done >> The following packages will be REMOVED: >> octave364 octave364-dev octave364-shlibs >> The following NEW packages will be installed: >> octave-atlas octave364-atlas octave364-atlas-shlibs >> 0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded. >> Need to get 0B/10.6MB of archives. After unpacking 3301kB will be freed. >> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] >> (Reading database ... 53797 files and directories currently installed.) >> Removing octave364-dev ... >> Removing octave364 ... >> Removing octave364-shlibs ... >> Selecting previously deselected package octave364-atlas-shlibs. >> (Reading database ... 51914 files and directories currently installed.) >> Unpacking octave364-atlas-shlibs (from >> .../octave364-atlas-shlibs_3.6.4-9_darwin-x86_64.deb) ... >> Selecting previously deselected package octave364-atlas. >> Unpacking octave364-atlas (from >> .../octave364-atlas_3.6.4-9_darwin-x86_64.deb) ... >> Selecting previously deselected package octave-atlas. >> Unpacking octave-atlas (from .../octave-atlas_3.6.4-9_darwin-x86_64.deb) ... >> Setting up octave364-atlas-shlibs (3.6.4-9) ... >> >> Setting up octave364-atlas (3.6.4-9) ... >> >> Setting up octave-atlas (3.6.4-9) ... >> * Octave: (octave). Interactive language for numerical computations. >> install-info(/sw/share/info/octave.info): no section specified for new >> entry, placing at end >> >> That is, I now have octave back, but octave364-dev is gone... In >> summary, I do not know how to get out of this loop, and any help will be >> very welcome. >> >> Best, >> >> Paulo >> >> > > You'd want octave364-atlas-dev given the output above. But why are you > building odepkg manually? Fink provides one. Try "fink install > odepkg-atlas-oct364". > > -- > Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. > Fink User Liaison > My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. 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