Can't Install Or Load Packages

[David Bateman]

A. Kalten wrote:
> After compiling and installing octave-3.0.0 on a Linux x86_64
> system (home-built custom) I cannot install any packages from
> octave-forge.
>
> Using the command:
>
> pkg install package-name
>
> will result in the following message:
>
> warning: save: unable to save global_packages in ASCII format
>
> This indicates that the package has been compiled and
> actually installed but the share/octave/octave_packages file
> cannot be written with the name of the package.  Consequently,
> even though all the package files are present, the package
> cannot be loaded.  Issuing the command:
>
> pkg load package-name
>
> will only report "package <package-name> is not installed"
>
> The package also cannot be uninstalled, unless I manually
> remove the directories containing the package files.
>
> How can this be fixed?  Using previous versions of octave
> I had no problem with installing or loading packages.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this problem with octave-3.0.0?
>
> Regards,
>
> Andrew Kalten
>   

What OS and version of Octave? Also what does

 pkg("global_list")

return? Is the file writable by the user you are installing the package
with?

D.

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