Marius Schamschula wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been updating my installation of octave-forge. > > Here is what has happened: > > I had a existing install of previous versions of octave forge > (20070821 and 20071014) that had been installed from the single > archive distribution, via a hand coded .m file (I use this script on > several Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 machines). With 20080507 I wanted to > automate things so I don't have to hand edit for each additional pkg > added. > > I had intended to have my script uninstall older (obsolete) packages, > but found no mechanism for uninstalling old packages. So I deleted all > installed packages and the corresponding octave_packages file, and > reinstalled. I found a few stray paths (see my previous email) and > realized that I had installed an useless, at least on a Macintosh, > windows pkg. I wanted to uninstall it but got the following message: > > octave:8> pkg uninstall windows > warning: some of the packages you want to uninstall are not installed. > > The package,however is listed among the installed packages:
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