From help-request at octave dot org Fri Mar 31 07:07:55 2006
Subject:  Re: symbolic toolbox installation
From: Markus Feldmann <feldmann_markus at gmx dot de>
To: help at octave dot org
Date:  Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:02:45 +0200

Geordie McBain wrote:
>> sorry for this 1000's Question.
> 
> No worries.
> 
>> I am using Linux Debian and wanna use octave with the symbolic
>> toolbox, therefore i installed,
>> 	octave-forge - Version: 2006.01.28-2
>>
>> but it seems that there is no sym command in octave, only:
>> 	octave2.9:1> sym
>> 	sym2poly   symerr     symfsolve  symlink
>> 	octave2.9:1>
>>
>> What have i to do to get this symbolic toolbox to work?
> 
> I'm not sure octave-forge connects to octave2.9 in Debian (it's not on
> mine either); so: install octave2.1.  (Isn't this a dependency of
> octave-forge in Debian?  I thought it was.)  Then start it with
> octave2.1
> 
> geordie at geordie3:/tmp$ octave2.1 -q
> octave2.1:1> symbols
> octave2.1:2> x = sym ("x");
> octave2.1:3> differentiate (Sin (x), x)
> ans =
> 
> cos(x)
> octave2.1:4>

I got it to work :-)
In 2.1 i can execute the sym command.
Doesn't know wherefore i do need the 2.9 package?

thanks

mfg Markus



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