bugGNU Octave - Bugs: bug #45482, installation problems in windows 7

 
 

bug #45482: installation problems in windows 7

Submitted by:  giovanni bortolan <gbortolan>
Submitted on:  Mon 06 Jul 2015 01:30:42 PM UTC  
 
Category: NoneSeverity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - NormalItem Group: Installation Failure
Status: InvalidAssigned to: None
Originator Name: gbortolanOpen/Closed: Closed
Release: 4.0.0Operating System: Microsoft Windows

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Tue 07 Jul 2015 03:29:04 PM UTC, comment #3:

Closing bug as "invalid" (really the best match for this case, sorry)

Hint: next time first ask on the -unavailable- mailing list, please

Philip Nienhuis <philipnienhuis>
Project Member
Tue 07 Jul 2015 07:35:06 AM UTC, comment #2:

Solved.
Thank you.

giovanni bortolan <gbortolan>
Mon 06 Jul 2015 03:18:43 PM UTC, comment #1:

From your error messages:

Try to delete that file. It may be a left-over from earlier Octave installations. Because there are spaces in the paths mentioned in that .octaverc file I suppose it never worked well and screwed up previous Octave installations too.

FYI, Octave searches in several places, in a well-defined order, for startup files. You home dir ("C:\Users\GiovanniB") is one of those locations. Look here:
https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Startup-Files.html

Philip Nienhuis <philipnienhuis>
Project Member
Mon 06 Jul 2015 01:30:42 PM UTC, original submission:

Installing under windows I found the following problems:
1. changing the default directory from "C:\octave\octave" to "C:\programmi\octave" something in the system sends the directory to "C:\program files\octave" that is not accepted by the installer because of the space in the directory name. If then I change the directory to "C:\prog\octave" or "C:\gnu\octave" installation runs fine but at first run I get the following warnings:
warning: addpath: C:\Programmi\Octave\3.2.4_gcc-4.4.0\share\octave\packages\miscellaneous-1.0.9: No such file or directory
warning: called from
C:\Users\GiovanniB\.octaverc at line 2 column 3
warning: addpath: C:\Programmi\Octave\3.2.4_gcc-4.4.0\libexec\octave\packages\miscellaneous-1.0.9\i686-pc-mingw32-api-v37: No such file or
directory
warning: addpath: C:\Programmi\Octave\3.2.4_gcc-4.4.0\share\octave\packages\optim-1.0.12: No such file or directory
warning: addpath: C:\Programmi\Octave\3.2.4_gcc-4.4.0\libexec\octave\packages\optim-1.0.12\i686-pc-mingw32-api-v37: No such file or direct
ory
...
warning: addpath: C:\Programmi\Octave\3.2.4_gcc-4.4.0\share\octave\packages\zenity-0.5.7: No such file or directory
warning: addpath: C:/Programmi/Octave/qtoctave/bin\..\share\qtoctave\scripts_octave\: No such file or directory
warning: addpath: C:\Programmi\femm\femm4.2 01-11-2011\femm42\mfiles: No such file or directory

The same warnings appear also in case I install under C:\octave\octave

Obviously the directory C:\programmi does not exist. Why should Octave look for it?

I tried to clean the register and the directories, with no success.

2. In another PC if I do not install under default directory, after launching "Octave-4.0.0 (GUI)" it hangs in such a way that I have to turn off the PC in hardware.

Strangely in this pc after installation in the default directory I get no warning and everything seems to work fine.

giovanni bortolan <gbortolan>

 

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