Hi Philip
I've been out of town for a few days so I could not attend further to
this problem.
In my hotel room I've decided to give Octave a go on my Win7 laptop.
I've installed and read odt files within an hour!
Now back to Linux, I still want to solve the problem and will do it over
this weekend. I have downloaded Octave 3.4.2 as I see the latest IO
package must have > Octave 3.4. I cannot install 3.4.2. from the Ubuntu
repositories and therefore will have to build it. I also want to use the
Intel compilers to be compatible with the rest of my FEM development work.
I'll report back.
*/Steph Bredenhann/* PrEng, PrCPM (sent from SJB-Linux)
On 05/07/2011 22:58, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
bredsj wrote:
I have installed the java successfully (I think), see result of pkg
list:
octave-3.2.4:1> pkg list
Package Name | Version | Installation directory
-------------------+---------+-----------------------
:
<snip>
:
io *| 1.0.12 | /usr/share/octave/packages/3.2/io-1.0.12
java *| 1.2.8 |
/usr/share/octave/packages/3.2/java-1.2.8
<snip>
octave-3.2.4:2>
Looks good, but no guarantee.
How did you install the java pkg?
- By downloading from Ubuntu repository, or
- Compiling / installing yourself?
The java pkg can be installed even with compilation errors but won't
work then, usually if the (proper) JVM wasn't found.
Pls read on...
I've followed all the other steps and downloaded
chk_spreadsheet_support now
with result:
octave-3.2.4:4> chk_spreadsheet_support ('/usr/lib/java/',3)
Checking Excel/ActiveX/COM... not working.
Checking Java support...
1. Checking Java JRE presence.... OK, found one.
2. Checking Octave Java support... error: No Java support found.
This is telling....
I think I still have some rights issues, see following:
octave-3.2.4:3> javaaddpath ('/usr/lib/java/xercesImpl.jar')
error: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/client/libjvm.so:
cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory
......"amd64".....
There you go.
>
> This is a very complicated process indeed for a novice.
For cracks as well, don't worry :-)
By coincidence, several weeks ago Martin Helm posted in the
help-octave ML about installing the java pkg on a 64-bit OpenSUSE (IIRC):
https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/help-octave/2011-May/046089.html
<QUOTE>
Namely /usr/lib64/jvm/jre-1.6.0-sun/lib/amd64/client does not exist
but only
/usr/lib64/jvm/jre-1.6.0-sun/lib/amd64/server and needs to be symlinked.
</QUOTE>
As your system says "No such file or directory" I suppose you hit this
issue.
So, apparently you might need to make the appropriate symlink....
(in ...../amd/ make a symlink "client" pointing to "server/",
ln -s client server or ln -s server client - I always forget the
right order, sorry)
(this is one of those gotcha's a novice won't be able to solve by
him-/herself).
Try that, and report back, please...
Philip
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