installing packages

Jeremy Reynolds jeremy.r.reynolds at gmail.com
Tue Jul 7 10:31:38 CDT 2009


I get the same error with a different package. This is on a 13" macbook
running OS 10.5.7. Here's my verbose output:

octave-3.2.0:1> pkg install -verbose io-1.0.9.tar.gz 
mkdir (/tmp/oct-qjmRJ8)
untar (io-1.0.9.tar.gz, /tmp/oct-qjmRJ8)
A(I): Index exceeds matrix dimension.
error: called from `pkg>install' in file
/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.2.0/m/pkg/pkg.m
near line 613, column 12
error: called from:
error:  
/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.2.0/m/pkg/pkg.m
at line 658, column 5
error:  
/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.2.0/m/pkg/pkg.m
at line 287, column 7






Thomas Treichl wrote:
> 
> David Woodburn schrieb:
>> I keep getting the following error when installing certain pkgs:
>> 
>>     octave-3.2.0:27> pkg install multicore-0.2.15.tar.gz
>>     A(I): Index exceeds matrix dimension.
>>     error: called from `pkg>install' in file
>>    
>> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.2.0/m/pkg/pkg.m
>>     near line 613, column 12
>>     error: called from:
>>     error:  
>>    
>> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.2.0/m/pkg/pkg.m
>>     at line 658, column 5
>>     error:  
>>    
>> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.2.0/m/pkg/pkg.m
>>     at line 287, column 7
>> 
>> However, I have been able to install other packages, so I know I have 
>> enough for general package installation.
>> 
>> David Woodburn
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> I can't reproduce the problem - here is what I see on a i386 10.4.x MacOSX
> system:
> 
>    octave-3.2.0:1> pkg install -verbose multicore-0.2.15.tar.gz
>    mkdir (/var/tmp/oct-ieH2sJ)
>    untar (multicore-0.2.15.tar.gz, /var/tmp/oct-ieH2sJ)
>    mkoctfile --mex existfile.c
>    copyfile /var/tmp/oct-ieH2sJ/multicore-0.2.15/src/existfile.mex
>   
> /var/tmp/oct-ieH2sJ/multicore-0.2.15/inst/i386-apple-darwin8.11.1-api-v37
>    octave-3.2.0:2> pkg list
>    Package Name  | Version | Installation directory
>    --------------+---------+-----------------------
>       multicore *|  0.2.15 |
> .../Resources/share/octave/packages/multicore-0.2.15
> 
> Can you try to use the '-verbose' flag - maybe we can just see something
> else 
> that is going wrong?
> 
>    Thomas
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