From help-request at octave dot org Mon Sep  5 01:30:31 2005
Subject: Re: invoking the toolboxes
From: Geordie McBain <geordie dot mcbain at aeromech dot usyd dot edu dot au>
To: mukesh at cosmiccircuits dot com
Cc: help at octave dot org
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 16:29:42 +1000

Hello.  No, my fault; addpath's part of octave-forge, which you don't
seem to have installed properly.  Use the Octave command path to add the
directory to your path: 

path (path (),
"/usr/libexec/octave/2.1.71/site/oct/i686-redhat-linux-gnu/octave-forge").

Also, I didn't read your message through before, so this path stuff
isn't going to fix the `not a valid shared library' problem.  I don't
know what that's about.  Sorry.


On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 11:49 +0530, Mukesh wrote:
> dear geordie
> i tried wht u suggested. here is the response from octave..
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> octave:9> addpath 
> ("/usr/libexec/octave/2.1.71/site/oct/i686-redhat-linux-gnu/octave-forge")
> error: `addpath' undefined near line 9 column 1
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> am i doing something wrong..
> 
> 
> Geordie McBain wrote:
> 
> >Hello.  It looks as though the directory containing symbols.oct isn't in
> >your path.  Try adding it with 
> >
> >addpath("/usr/libexec/octave/2.1.71/site/oct/i686-redhat-linux-gnu/octave-forge")
> >
> >On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 11:05 +0530, Mukesh wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>thanx david, quentin and all other members for helping me out of the 
> >>installation problem.
> >>the solution seems to be temporary, but still this is good enough for me 
> >>if i can use symbolic toolbox..
> >>
> >>can somebody plz help me about how to invoke the toolbox like symbolic 
> >>toolbox.
> >>i read somewhere that i need to add the directory that have my 
> >>"symbols.oct" file to octave path.
> >>and then i need to type "symbols" at the octave command prompt.
> >>
> >>i first checked the path for my file "symbols.oct" and i found it at
> >>/usr/libexec/octave/2.1.71/site/oct/i686-redhat-linux-gnu/octave-forge
> >>
> >>now when i typed command "path" on my octave command prompt i got 
> >>following output
> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>octave:4> path
> >> Octave's search path contains the following directories:
> >>   .
> >>  /usr/local/libexec/octave/2.1.71/site/oct/i686-pc-linux-gnu//
> >>  /usr/local/libexec/octave/site/oct/api-v13/i686-pc-linux-gnu//
> >>  /usr/local/libexec/octave/site/oct/i686-pc-linux-gnu//
> >>  /usr/local/share/octave/2.1.71/site/m//
> >>  /usr/local/share/octave/site/api-v13/m//
> >>  /usr/local/share/octave/site/m//
> >>  /usr/local/libexec/octave/2.1.71/oct/i686-pc-linux-gnu//
> >>  /usr/local/share/octave/2.1.71/m//
> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>but still when i typed symbols on my octave command prompt it says
> >>
> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>error: `symbols' undefined near line 5 column 1
> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>i also tried going to the directory where symbols.oct is located and 
> >>type "symbols" their but it gives a different error.
> >>
> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>error: 
> >>/usr/libexec/octave/2.1.71/site/oct/i686-redhat-linux-gnu/octave-forge/symbols.oct 
> >>is not a valid shared library
> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>plz help!!!!
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >
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