I find the package browser very useful for finding out what supporting
packages might be required:
http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/browse.php?summary=octave
Glad you got it working,
R.
On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Paulo de Souza Mendes <pmen...@mac.com>wrote:
> 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/
>
>
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