octave binary from fink not running

[oecher3]

Hello...
my dilema is that I need to get my octave running again. I had an old version on my old iBook. I just finished downloading the new version of octave from fink as binary (got all the packages with it -14!) and thought I could now go into my existing X11 and type octave and ....nothing happend bash: octave: command not found
I am a beginner when it comes to unix, just a user ....
Any suggestions?
Oh, and does anybody know if the matrix inverter bug was taken care off in the new version?
Deeply appreciate it!
Daniel
It runs under the terminal window...but not in X11...that is soooo odd!
I liked the X11 window better...

[yellow]

If it says "command not found" it's probably not in your path.
See if this works:
ls -la /sw/bin/octave

[oecher3]

Quote: Originally Posted by yellow If it says "command not found" it's probably not in your path. See if this works: ls -la /sw/bin/octave

Thanks for your message!

tried it even with the ls -la /sw/bin/octave-2.1.53
but same result.
Before I posted this I went into this directory to start octave
directly from its folder to see if the link is not open to be called up from anywhere. didn't work..
is it possible that I have my X11 window locked somehow?
I can still do my SSH connection to the server but octave.
I think I should also be able to access R from X11, the new version has its own window so I haven't thought of anything when I could no longer open R in X11.

[yellow]

If you were in the same folder, you would have to prefix the command with a ./, like this:

./octave-2.1.53

[sao]

Quote: oecher3 wrote: bash: octave: command not found

Check your .profile or .bash_profile file in your home directory to see if you have:

. /sw/bin/init.sh

Also, have you deleted anything in your .octaverc? Please, run in Terminal.app and post the result of:

sw_vers
echo $PATH
fink list -i octave


It's working here without problems:

[pm @ Sao: ~] % octave
GNU Octave, version 2.1.57 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.4.0).
Copyright (C) 2004 John W. Eaton.
.........

octave:1> DEFAULT_LOADPATH
DEFAULT_LOADPATH = .:/sw/lib/octave/2.1.57/site/oct/powerpc-apple-darwin7.4.0//
:/sw/lib/octave/site/oct/api-v8/powerpc-apple-darwin7.4.0//:/sw/lib/octave/site/oct/powerpc-apple-darwin7.4.0//
:/sw/share/octave/2.1.57/site/m//:/sw/share/octave/site/api-v8/m//:/sw/share/octave/site/m//
:/sw/lib/octave/2.1.57/oct/powerpc-apple-darwin7.4.0//:/sw/share/octave/2.1.57/m//
octave:2>

[oecher3]

it took me a while...sorry!
here are what I get

oecher3:/ oecher3$ sw_vers
ProductName: Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.3.4
BuildVersion: 7H63

oecher3:/ oecher3$ echo $PATH
/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin

oecher3:/ oecher3$ fink list -i octave

Information about 1494 packages read in 3 seconds.
i octave 2.1.53-1 Matlab-like language for computations

a friend of mine played with it and said he put a bandaid on it.
He said the .profile showed the shell boot up/ initial start up included everything it was supposed to but it didn't really start up. He copied the same information into an attached file and told it to open everytime I start X11. Now octave works in X11, but I still have trouble.

I tried installing octave-forge today and I get an error message that tell me that the problem still exits:

oecher3:/Downloads/octave-forge-2004.02.12 oecher3$ ./configure
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.

Do I see this right that the Path is what causes me problems?

Thanks again for your help!

[oecher3]

when I type
.profile and .bash_profile I get respectively:

oecher3:/ oecher3$ .profile
-bash: .profile: command not found

oecher3:/ oecher3$ .bash_profile
-bash: .bash_profile: command not found

Ah...grrrrrrr...

All I did is download fink commander and than octave setup itself. I don't play much with the unix, since I don't know much about it. But I sure we can fix this I hate to buy Matlab when octave is such a great program!

[yellow]

.profile and .bash_profile aren't commands, so just typing that won't get you anything. What are you trying to accomplish? To see if they exist? If so, in your home directory (to get there, type: cd ~), type: ls -la

Did you download and build octave from source, or just download a binary? In order to build anything, you need to have XCode tools installed, and therefore a C compiler. To see if you have a C compiler, type: gcc -v

yellow% gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/3.3/specs
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1640)

[sao]

checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

oecher3,

The fink package octave-forge is only in 10.3 "unstable", so as yellow told you above:

1- you need to install 'Xcode' (Apple Developer Tools) and the 'X11SDK' from the Xcode Tools CD to compile it from source.

2- enable Fink to use unstable by editing the /sw/etc/fink.conf file and adding 'unstable/main' 'unstable/crypto' to the beginning of the Trees: line. And then run from Terminal.app the commands:

fink index
fink selfupdate
fink install octave-forge

Trees: local/main unstable/main unstable/crypto stable/main stable/crypto local/bootstrap

You can also configure Fink to use unstable in FinkCommander Preferences.
.

[oecher3]

Alright..got Xcode installed,
now I fixed the fink.conf
but now this:
oecher3:/sw/etc oecher3$ fink index
Distribution not set in config file "/sw/etc/fink.conf"!
here is what the whole config looks like:

# Fink configuration, initially created by bootstrap.pl
Basepath: /sw
RootMethod: sudo
Trees: unstable/main unstable/crypto local/main stable/main stable/crypto local/bootstrap Distribution: 10.3
Mirror-cpan: ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/
Mirror-ctan: ftp://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/
Mirror-debian: ftp.debian.org
Mirror-gimp: ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub
Mirror-gnome: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/
Mirror-gnu: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu
Mirror-kde: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/
Mirror-master: http://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/
Mirror-rsync: rsync://master.us.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo/
Mirror-sourceforge: http://west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/
MirrorContinent: nam
MirrorCountry: nam-us
MirrorOrder: MasterFirst
ProxyPassiveFTP: true
Verbose: 1

when I open up the fink commander I get 0 packages downloaded and o packages installed...

I tried installing the octave-forge just as they recommand in the readme file.
it suggested to type ./configure in the octave-forge folder
than to type make and then sudo make install...
but this is what I got:

oecher3:/Downloads/octave-forge-2004.02.12 oecher3$ ./configure
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for mkoctfile... mkoctfile
retrieving compile and link flags from mkoctfile
checking for F77_FUNC... yes
checking for SLList.h... no
checking for lo_ieee_nan_value... yes
checking for quit.h... yes
checking for octave... octave
checking for OCTAVE_VERSION in Octave... 2.1.53
checking for octave_config_info('SHLEXT') in Octave... so
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for strip... strip
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for X... libraries /usr/X11R6/lib, headers /usr/X11R6/include
checking for gethostbyname... yes
checking for connect... yes
checking for remove... yes
checking for shmat... yes
checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes
checking for do_fortran_indexing in Octave... no
checking for propagate_empty_matrices in Octave... no
checking for ok_to_lose_imaginary_part in Octave... no
checking for N-dim arrays... yes
checking for class in Octave... yes
checking for load/save functions in class... no
checking for Octave_map indexing... no
checking for makeinfo... makeinfo
checking for makeinfo --no-split... yes
checking for texi2dvi... texi2dvi
checking that texi2dvi runs... no
checking for texi2html... texi2html
checking for texi2html --clean... no
checking for dvipdf... no
checking for dvips... no
checking IEEE 754 compliance... yes
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking linux/soundcard.h usability... no
checking linux/soundcard.h presence... no
checking for linux/soundcard.h... no
checking for qh_qhull in -lqhull... no
checking jpeglib.h usability... no
checking jpeglib.h presence... no
checking for jpeglib.h... no
checking png.h usability... no
checking png.h presence... no
checking for png.h... no
checking for socklen_t... yes
checking for octave_function(void)... no
checking term.h usability... yes
checking term.h presence... yes
checking for term.h... yes
checking termcap.h usability... yes
checking termcap.h presence... yes
checking for termcap.h... yes
checking for tgetnum in -ltermcap... yes
checking for ginac-config... no
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makeconf
config.status: creating octinst.sh
config.status: creating admin/RPM/octave-forge.spec

"$prefix" is /usr/local
"$exec_prefix" is ${prefix}

octave commands will install into the following directories:
m-files: /sw/share/octave/2.1.53/site/m/octave-forge
oct-files: /sw/lib/octave/2.1.53/site/oct/powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0/octave-forge
binaries: /sw/lib/octave/2.1.53/site/exec/powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0
alternatives:
m-files: /sw/share/octave/2.1.53/site/octave-forge-alternatives/m
oct-files: /sw/lib/octave/2.1.53/site/octave-forge-alternatives/oct/powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0

shell commands will install into the following directories:
binaries: ${exec_prefix}/bin
man pages: ${prefix}/man
libraries: ${exec_prefix}/lib
headers: ${prefix}/include

octave-forge is configured with
octave: octave (version 2.1.53)
mkoctfile: mkoctfile for Octave 53
X11 support: yes
makeinfo: makeinfo --no-split
texi2dvi:
texi2html: texi2html
mkdoc: /Downloads/octave-forge-2004.02.12/admin/mkdoc
mktexi: /Downloads/octave-forge-2004.02.12/admin/mktexi
dvips:
dvipdf:
audio capture: linux/soundcard.h not found
geometry toolbox: Qhull not found --- see main/geometry/README
read/write image formats: jpeglib.h not found, png.h not found
have term.h or termcap.h: yes
symbolic toolbox: GiNaC not found --- see main/symbolic/INSTALL

find . -name NOINSTALL -print # shows which toolboxes won't be installed

oecher3:/Downloads/octave-forge-2004.02.12 oecher3$ make
cd FIXES/ && make
mkoctfile -DHAVE_OCTAVE_21 -v -DHAVE_IEEE754_COMPLIANCE sort.cc
g++ -c -no-cpp-precomp -I/sw/include -I/sw/include/octave-2.1.53 -I/sw/include/octave-2.1.53/octave -I/sw/include -g -O2 -DHAVE_OCTAVE_21 -DHAVE_IEEE754_COMPLIANCE sort.cc -o sort.o
In file included from /sw/include/octave-2.1.53/octave/ov-base.h:39,
from /sw/include/octave-2.1.53/octave/ov-fcn.h:36,
from /sw/include/octave-2.1.53/octave/ov-builtin.h:32,
from /sw/include/octave-2.1.53/octave/defun-int.h:28,
from /sw/include/octave-2.1.53/octave/defun-dld.h:30,
from /sw/include/octave-2.1.53/octave/oct.h:35,
from sort.cc:23:
/sw/include/octave-2.1.53/octave/ov.h:37:18: hdf5.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /sw/include/octave-2.1.53/octave/ov-base.h:39,
from /sw/include/octave-2.1.53/octave/ov-fcn.h:36,
from /sw/include/octave-2.1.53/octave/ov-builtin.h:32,
from /sw/include/octave-2.1.53/octave/defun-int.h:28,
from /sw/include/octave-2.1.53/octave/defun-dld.h:30,
from /sw/include/octave-2.1.53/octave/oct.h:35,
from sort.cc:23:
/sw/include/octave-2.1.53/octave/ov.h:666: error: `hid_t' was not declared in
this scope
/sw/include/octave-2.1.53/octave/ov.h:666: error: parse error before `,' token
/sw/include/octave-2.1.53/octave/ov.h:669: error: `hid_t' was not declared in
this scope
/sw/include/octave-2.1.53/octave/ov.h:669: error: parse error before `,' token
/sw/include/octave-2.1.53/octave/ov.h: In member function `virtual bool
octave_value::save_hdf5(...)':
/sw/include/octave-2.1.53/octave/ov.h:667: error: `loc_id' undeclared (first
use this function)
/sw/include/octave-2.1.53/octave/ov.h:667: error: (Each undeclared identifier
is reported only once for each function it appears in.)
/sw/include/octave-2.1.53/octave/ov.h:667: error: `name' undeclared (first use
this function)
/sw/include/octave-2.1.53/octave/ov.h:667: error: `save_as_floats' undeclared
(first use this function)
/sw/include/octave-2.1.53/octave/ov.h: In member function `virtual bool
octave_value::load_hdf5(...)':
/sw/include/octave-2.1.53/octave/ov.h:671: error: `have_h5giterate_bug'
undeclared (first use this function)
In file included from /sw/include/octave-2.1.53/octave/ov-fcn.h:36,
from /sw/include/octave-2.1.53/octave/ov-builtin.h:32,
from /sw/include/octave-2.1.53/octave/defun-int.h:28,
from /sw/include/octave-2.1.53/octave/defun-dld.h:30,
from /sw/include/octave-2.1.53/octave/oct.h:35,
from sort.cc:23:
/sw/include/octave-2.1.53/octave/ov-base.h: At global scope:
/sw/include/octave-2.1.53/octave/ov-base.h:268: error: parse error before `,'
token
/sw/include/octave-2.1.53/octave/ov-base.h:270: error: parse error before `,'
token
make[1]: *** [sort.oct] Error 1
make: *** [FIXES/] Error 2

[oecher3]

oecher3:/Downloads/octave-forge-2004.02.12 oecher3$ sudo make install
Password:
cd FIXES/ && make install
installing FIXES to /sw/share/octave/2.1.53/site/m/octave-forge/FIXES
cd extra/ && make install
if ! test -e /sw/lib/octave/2.1.53/site/oct/powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0/octave-forge ; then \
echo creating /sw/lib/octave/2.1.53/site/oct/powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0/octave-forge ; \
/usr/bin/install -c -d /sw/lib/octave/2.1.53/site/oct/powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0/octave-forge ; \
fi
if test -d /sw/lib/octave/2.1.53/site/oct/powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0/octave-forge ; then \
echo installing mex.o mex/mex.h mex/matrix.h in /sw/lib/octave/2.1.53/site/oct/powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0/octave-forge ; \
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 mex.o /sw/lib/octave/2.1.53/site/oct/powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0/octave-forge/mex.o ; \
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 mex.h /sw/lib/octave/2.1.53/site/oct/powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0/octave-forge/mex.h ; \
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 matrix.h /sw/lib/octave/2.1.53/site/oct/powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0/octave-forge/matrix.h ; \
fi
installing mex.o mex/mex.h mex/matrix.h in /sw/lib/octave/2.1.53/site/oct/powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0/octave-forge
install: mex.o: No such file or directory
installing mex/mex.1 in /usr/local/man/man1
installing mex/mex in /usr/local/bin
install: mex: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [install] Error 71
make[1]: *** [mex/] Error 2
make: *** [extra/] Error 2

I know information overload but I would like to get this working. I need to use the symbolic toolbox and it seems it even not included in the forge I downloaded...

Any more clues???

[sao]

# Fink configuration, initially created by bootstrap.pl
Basepath: /sw
RootMethod: sudo
Trees: local/main unstable/main unstable/crypto stable/main stable/crypto local/bootstrap
Distribution: 10.3
Mirror-cpan: ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/
.......

Look in your /sw/etc/fink.conf file, "Distribution: 10.3" needs to be on the next line (see my example above).
That's why you get the message: "Distribution not set in config file "/sw/etc/fink.conf"!"

1- After you fixed it, run the command 'fink index' again.
2- And then run 'fink selfupdate' (choose the 'rsync' method if asked).
3- When finished, if you want to see a list of the packages you can install with Fink, run in Terminal.app the command 'fink list'.
5- Important: Did you installed the "X11SDK" package from the Xcode Tools CD? It's necessary if you want to install from source.

Quote: I tried installing the octave-forge just as they recommand in the readme file.

To install the "fink" package 'octave-forge', just run in Terminal.app the command:

'fink install octave-forge'

[pm @ Sao: ~] % lis -i octave
Information about 3183 packages read in 1 seconds.
 i   octave                   2.1.57-3           Matlab-like language for computations
 i   octave-forge             2004.02.12-3       Extensions to octave

I wouldn't recommend you at this stage to try to install manually a non-fink package like you are trying to do.
.

[oecher3]

Thank you so much,
I got it to run...can't believe it I forgot to install the developer tools before fiddling with x11. Now my octave runs great...
Good job. very good page, I will pass the word around the department about your excellent help!

Quote: Originally Posted by sao # Fink configuration, initially created by bootstrap.pl Basepath: /sw RootMethod: sudo Trees: local/main unstable/main unstable/crypto stable/main stable/crypto local/bootstrap Distribution: 10.3 Mirror-cpan: ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/ ....... Look in your /sw/etc/fink.conf file, "Distribution: 10.3" needs to be on the next line (see my example above). That's why you get the message: "Distribution not set in config file "/sw/etc/fink.conf"!" 1- After you fixed it, run the command 'fink index' again. 2- And then run 'fink selfupdate' (choose the 'rsync' method if asked). 3- When finished, if you want to see a list of the packages you can install with Fink, run in Terminal.app the command 'fink list'. 5- Important: Did you installed the "X11SDK" package from the Xcode Tools CD? It's necessary if you want to install from source. To install the "fink" package 'octave-forge', just run in Terminal.app the command: 'fink install octave-forge' [pm @ Sao: ~] % lis -i octave Information about 3183 packages read in 1 seconds. i octave 2.1.57-3 Matlab-like language for computations i octave-forge 2004.02.12-3 Extensions to octave I wouldn't recommend you at this stage to try to install manually a non-fink package like you are trying to do. .