From help-request at octave dot org Wed Sep 14 01:27:26 2005 Subject: Re: invoking the toolboxes From: Mukesh To: help at octave dot org Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:53:39 +0530 hi quentin, thanx a million.. i think i moved one more step towards solving invoking problem.. i unstalled my old octave installation and now i m able to use symbolic toolbox.. but still when i invoke octave i get following errors.. =================================================================== error: `dispatch' undefined near line 2 column 1 error: near line 2 of file `/usr/share/octave/2.1.71/site/m/octave-forge/comm//PKG_ADD' error: source: error sourcing file `/usr/share/octave/2.1.71/site/m/octave-forge/comm//PKG_ADD' =================================================================== Rgds Mukesh Quentin Spencer wrote: > Mukesh wrote: > >> i had installed octave from source code and after a couple of weeks i >> installed it using rpm found at >> "ftp://coffee.phys.unm.edu/pub/octave/RPMS/i386/".. i assumed that it >> will overwrite my old installation.. >> if not can u help me abt how to uninstall the older octave i >> installed from source code.. >> thanx >> Mukesh > > > > Is there an octave installation in /usr/local/bin ? You need to remove > that. Do you still have the source tree from which you installed it? > You can go there and do "make uninstall". The octave sources install > everything in /usr/local by default, while my package installs in > /usr, so you probably have two versions of octave and are using the > wrong one. Try running /usr/bin/octave and see if the symbolic toolbox > works. > > regards, > Quentin > ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------