Re: "octave" linked to "octave-3.6.1" but only "octave-3.6.1" will start octave

2012-03-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-03-01 16:24 +0100, Edward C. Jones wrote: > I have just compiled and installed octave from source and removed the Debian > octave packages. If I do > > cd /usr/local/bin > ls -il > > the output includes > > 1584647 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 12 Feb 29 22:14 octave -> octave-3.6.1 > 1584644

Re: "octave" linked to "octave-3.6.1" but only "octave-3.6.1" will start octave

2012-03-01 Thread CamaleĆ³n
On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:24:01 -0500, Edward C. Jones wrote: (...) > If I type "octave", it does not run. The error message is: > > bash: /usr/bin/octave: No such file or directory Because "which octave" is pointing to the wrong path? The binary file is not there ("/usr

Re: "octave" linked to "octave-3.6.1" but only "octave-3.6.1" will start octave

2012-03-01 Thread Keith McKenzie
On 01/03/12 15:24, Edward C. Jones wrote: 262067 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 21 2011 python -> python2.6 262052 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2288272 Dec 26 2010 python2.6 1584647 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 12 Feb 29 22:14 octave -> octave-3.6.1 1584644 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 7346 Feb 29 22:

"octave" linked to "octave-3.6.1" but only "octave-3.6.1" will start octave

2012-03-01 Thread Edward C. Jones
I use Debian stable linux (squeeze). "echo $PATH" gives (newlines added and name replaced): /usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games: /usr/games:/home//bin:/home//lib:/home//lib/python: /home//bin:/home//lib:/home/xxx