From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Dec 22 21:18:14 2003 Subject: Re: How to use octave-forge? From: Paul Kienzle To: Joe Koski Cc: , Vic Norton Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 22:17:23 -0500 lp.cc has no dependencies. I would be very happy to have someone propose a package format for octave which would allow people to download octave-forge piecemeal and have the results work nicely together. Even better if it handles dependencies nicely. Paul Kienzle pkienzle at users dot sf dot net On Dec 22, 2003, at 6:42 PM, Joe Koski wrote: > You don't say the type of computer that you are using. You should > consider > installing the entire octave-forge library for future use. Many times a > routine calls other routines, and it is not a simple matter of > installing > one routine. Depending on your computer, there are several ways of > downloading and installing the entire octave-forge library of routines. > > Joe Koski > > on 12/22/03 1:46 PM, Vic Norton at vic at norton dot name wrote: > >> I would like to download and install a linear programming routine >> from octave-forge, but I can't figure out how to go about it. >> >> The routine is "lp.cc". It is in the Minimization section >> http://octave.sourceforge.net/index/optimization.html#Minimization >> The URL below is attached to the specific program. >> >> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/octave/ >> octave-forge/ >> main/optim/lp.cc?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain >> I guess the project's Unix name is >> octave/octave-forge/main/optim/lp.cc >> >> >> I can see the C source for the program on the web, but that does me >> no good. If I copied it, I wouldn't know how to compile it so that it >> was part of Octave. >> >> Presumably I can "checkout" the lp package via cvs and that will come >> with the appropriate configuration file(s), but I simply don't know >> where to start. >> >> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. So far nothing I have >> tried has worked at all. >> >> Regards, >> >> Vic >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 >> ------------------------------------------------------------- >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------