From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Sat Feb 1 11:34:50 2003 Subject: Re: installing octave 2143 From: "Henry F. Mollet" To: David Owen Cc: Octave_post Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 09:36:36 -0800 I'm not qualified to make a suggestion but starting from scratch with a clean slate is probably a good idea. I just wanted to let you know that for a novice like me, a binary made installation almost painless. In addition, I'm really trying to get going on octave installed on a Mac. Thanks to Fink I was able to do the installation on Mac and suggest that unless you know how to pre-compile, compile, and link a small source program you cannot expect to be successful with a big program like Octave. You need a solid knowledge of Unix and/or C to understand all the steps needed or given in structions (i.e. Configuration files, make utitlity and more). Henry on 2/1/03 5:25 AM, David Owen at dowen at carib-link dot net wrote: > Thanks very much. Actually I have now installed ver.2.1.36 and it appears that > Cygwin is now not working properly. Should I UNinstall both then install > 2.1.36 > then Cygwin? I shall be happy for suggestions. > Regards > David Owen > > "Henry F. Mollet" wrote: > >> I might be easier to install the last version for which a binary is >> available. Then you get an .exe file and even I was able to install 2.1.36 >> on a PC with Windows 95. I did not even know about the Linux Cygwin but that >> was installed also. Plus gnuplot 3.8i with menus (File, Plot, Functions, >> General, Axes, Chart, Styles, 3d, Help) was installed as well. >> Henry >> on 1/31/03 7:30 AM, David Owen at dowen at carib-link dot net wrote: >> >>> Hi, Everybody, >>> I have a problem with installing Octave under Cygwin. I have already >>> installed Cygwin. Could someone tell me where to find the detailed >>> procedure or tell me exactly what to do. I have downloaded Octave 2143 >>> and I am runnung Windows 98 SE. >>> Thanks very much. I will certainly appreciate it. >>> David Owen >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. >>> >>> Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org >>> How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html >>> Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html >>> ------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------- >> Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. >> >> Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org >> How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html >> Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html >> ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. > > Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org > How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html > Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html > ------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------