Installation troubles

[Peter Hinow]

Dear all,

I am new to octave as a whole and try to install octplot. I have octave 3.0.1 on a Ubuntu 9.04 desktop. While I'm not sure that I try to do the right thing, if I run

octplot_enable

from the src directory, I get the following error message

error: Octplot was compiled for a different version of Octave
error: evaluating if command near line 40, column 3
error: evaluating if command near line 28, column 1
error: near line 54 of file `/home/peter/octplot-0.4.0/src/octplot_enable.m'

If I try

pkg install octplot-0.4.0.tar.gz

then I get the message

error: package is missing file: DESCRIPTION
error: called from `pkg:verify_directory' in file /usr/share/octave/3.0.1/m/pkg/pkg.m near line 1602, column 7

can you please help?
thank you and best regards,
Peter

[Thomas Weber]

octplot checks the precise version of Octave it was built against. Your best bet is to change the check in octplot_enable.m.

However, octplot is pretty much dead. Its author is involved in the graphics system of Octave itself. So I suggest that you don't even start with octplot at all and try Octave 3.2 and its fltk backend. For questions about that, go to Octave's user mailing list.

[Tormod Volden]

It sounds like you did not install the octplot package from the Ubuntu repository. Ubuntu 9.04 has the packages octplot 0.4.0-7build1 and octave 1:3.0.1-6ubuntu2.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Hi!
I'm trying to compile oct-plot and the terminal show me the followwing error:

checking for a BSD-compatible install… /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane… yes
checking for gawk… gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)… yes
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)… (cached) yes
checking for ranlib… ranlib
checking whether ln -s works… yes
checking for rm… rm
checking for gcc… gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name… 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 style of include used by make… GNU
checking dependency style of gcc… gcc3
checking for g++… g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler… yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g… yes
checking dependency style of g++… gcc3
checking how to run the C preprocessor… gcc -E
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 ieeefp.h usability… no
checking ieeefp.h presence… no
checking for ieeefp.h… no
checking sys/time.h usability… yes
checking sys/time.h presence… yes
checking for sys/time.h… yes
checking sys/wait.h usability… yes
checking sys/wait.h presence… yes
checking for sys/wait.h… yes
checking sys/socket.h usability… yes
checking sys/socket.h presence… yes
checking for sys/socket.h… yes
checking for fcntl… yes
checking for mkoctfile… no
configure: WARNING: no mkoctfile found on path
checking for octave… octave
checking for octave-config… no
configure: error:
*** Unable to find octave

can somebody help me?
greetings from Chile!

[slaupin]

I had the same error in Ubuntu 11.04, 64 bit. Turns out I needed to install the octave headers. In Ubuntu this is:

sudo apt-get install octave3.2-headers

Then I received errors about fltk2, which was fixed by installing:

sudo apt-get install libfltk1.1-dev

Then freetype error:

sudo apt-get install libfreetype6-dev

Then glu.h error:

sudo apt-get install libglu1-mesa-dev

At this point I was still getting some odd GL errors on specific function calls and gave up. Hopefully this helps someone else though.

[Pavel Snopok]

octave-config needs to be installed. Use

sudo apt-get install octave3.2-headers