Thanks for the reply Yaroslav, That worked! I ran (sudo) apt-get install liboctave-dev any reason why the install didn't take care of that?
As it happens, I also had to run sudo apt-get upgrade alsa-utils to get PsychPortAudio to work... On 1 March 2016 at 19:47, Yaroslav Halchenko <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, 01 Mar 2016, Neil Dundon wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > The other night I successfully installed and PsychToolbox via > Octave on > > Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 32-bit on Oracal VirtualBox 5.0.14. Exact as > > instructed: > > > wget -O- http://neuro.debian.net/lists/trusty.de-md.full | sudo tee > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/neurodebian.sources.list > > > sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu:80 > 0xA5D32F012649A5A9 > > > sudo apt-get update > > > sudo apt-get install octave-psychtoolbox-3 > > > I then ran PsychLinuxUpdate in command line octave, and after a > reboot, > > everything worked fine. > > Either I am out of luck or ... -- where is PsychLinuxUpdate comes from? > > > Following this, I reinstalled VirtualBox to another disk space, > > reinstalled everything exactly as above and it didn't work. Any > time I > > try to run basic PTB functions, e.g., Screen('OpenWindow',0,0);, it > gives > > me the error: > > error: /usr/share/octave/site/m/psychtoolbox-3/PsychBasic/Screen.mex: > > failed to load: liboctinterp.so: cannot open shared object file: No > such > > file or directory > > that one comes from liboctave* package... dunno exact one on trusty AT > just do > > apt-get install liboctave-dev > > which should pull it in > > > I've tried on the same flavour of Ubuntu on other VirtualBoxes on > other > > machines, trying both 32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu, reformatting and > > reinstalling several times, exactly as above and always the same > > errors.... > > Please put me out of my misery and let me know what bone-head mistake > I > > keep making! > > what if you try some other than trusty? what about Debian jessie? ;) > > -- > Yaroslav O. Halchenko, Ph.D. > http://neuro.debian.net http://www.pymvpa.org http://www.fail2ban.org > Research Scientist, Psychological and Brain Sciences Dept. > Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 > Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 > WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik > > _______________________________________________ > Neurodebian-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/neurodebian-users
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