From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Sat Feb 1 11:44:45 2003 Subject: Re: installing octave 2143 From: David Owen To: "Henry F. Mollet" CC: Octave_post Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 13:38:42 -0500 Hi, Henry, Thanks for your help. I got another file ver 2.1.42 from http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~adler/octave from Paul Kienzle which I am going to try right now. I'll let everyone know what happens. Thanks again David Owen "Henry F. Mollet" wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------