thanks Remi and Martin, I just needed to update fink to be able to list and then install octave.
My problem now is imagesc doesn't do anything. I had this problem in the last version I grabbed, but never resolved it. I don't get any errors, but no figure or image appears. Do I need to install additional programs (I saw a message that mentioned using ImageMagick)? Note that the function plot works fine, bringing up a figure displayed with aquaterm or gnuplot depending on whether I'm using Terminal or X11. thanks, G On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 04:36:28 +0200, Martin Costabel wrote: > > Remi Mommsen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Apr 17, 2004, at 2:15 PM, George Tourtellot wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> At the site: > >> http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/octave > >> I see that there's a stable version of octave > available, but when I type: > >> fink list > >> I don't see octave. > >> Also, > >> fink install octave > >> gives me this message: > >> Information about 1124 packages read in 1 seconds. > >> Failed: no package found for specification 'octave'! > > > > > > Have you run 'fink selfupdate' recently? Which OS > version do you use? > > If you are on Fink distribution 0.6.2 (I am assuming > this, because you > don't see octave), and you don't want to spend half an > hour compiling > just to get the latest stable package descriptions, > then don't do "fink > selfupdate" immediately. Do the following, which is > much faster: > > 1. sudo apt-get update > and perhaps "fink scanpackages" first, if you don't > like > "file not found" messages. > At this point, you can already see octave via > apt-cache show octave > and you can install it via > sudo apt-get install octave > You don't see it via "fink list octave", however. > 2. sudo apt-get install fink fink-prebinding > This updates fink the program to a more recent > version > and sets some configurations right. > 3. sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -u > This upgrades the basic packages apt, dpkg etc from > the latest > binary distribution. > The "-u" is there so that you see what apt-get is > planning to do. > 4. fink selfupdate > This gives you the new package descriptions, so > that you will > finally see octave with "fink list". > You can stick with point releases here if you wish. > Right now, > release 0.7.0 is pretty up-to-date. > > If you don't do 2. and 3. before 4., "fink selfupdate" > will proceed to > compile the basic packages like apt, dpkg, ncursesm > bzip2, tar from > source, and this will take quite a while, at least half > an hour to an > hour. BTW, the above procedure is also the only way to > do an update that > (probably) works without having the developer tools > installed. > > -- > Martin ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
