mfiles installed with pkg -auto install are not found

[David Bateman]

Eric Chassande-Mottin wrote:
> Bug report for Octave 3.0.0 configured for i486-pc-linux-gnu
>
> Description:
> -----------
>
> mfiles installed with pkg -auto install are not found
>
> Repeat-By:
> ---------
>
> ~$ rm .octave_packages
> ~$ rm -rf octave/signal-1.0.5
> ~$ octave -q
> octave:1> pkg -auto install octave/signal-1.0.5.tar.gz
> octave:2> hilbert
> usage: h = hilbert(f,N,dim);
> error: evaluating if command near line 45, column 3
> error: called from `hilbert' in file `octave/signal-1.0.5/hilbert.m'
> octave:2> which hilbert
> hilbert is the user-defined function from the file
> octave/signal-1.0.5/hilbert.m
> octave:3> quit
> ~$ octave -q
> octave:1> hilbert
> error: `hilbert' undefined near line 1 column 1
> octave:2> pkg list
> Package Name  | Version | Installation directory
> --------------+---------+-----------------------
>       signal  |   1.0.5 | octave/signal-1.0.5
>   
Ok, the package is install, just not loaded.. What happens when you quit
and restart Octave? Is the package available? Are you running as a user
or as root?  In any case I can't duplicate this under 3.0.0 on my machine..

Regards
David




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