syntax error when pkg install io-xxx.tar.gz package

[John W. Eaton]

On 22-May-2008, pauljoseph wrote:

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| Tatsuro MATSUOKA-2 wrote:
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| > please use
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| > pkg install -verbose io-1.0.5.tar.gz
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| > to get more detailed information.
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| > Or please extract io-1.0.5.tar.gz and at extracted io-1.0.5/src  directry 
| > try ./configure and make
| > 
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| This is what I got when i type pkg install -verbose:
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| octave:1> pkg install -verbose io-1.0.5.tar.gz
| parse error:
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|   syntax error
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| >>> pkg install -verbose io-1.0.5.tar.gz

Does

  mark_as_command ("pkg")
  pkg install -verbose io-1.0.5.tar.gz

work?

If so, you need to find out why this is not happening automatically.
Normally, there would be a PKG_ADD file in the same directory as the
pkg.m file that contains does the mark_as_command thing for pkg.  Did
your build and install finish properly?

jwe