> On Oct 27, 2016, at 1:29 PM, Marius Schamschula <li...@schamschula.com> wrote: > > Jerry, > > If you want to use octave packages with octave-devel*, you need to use octave > select. Otherwise mkoctfile (which is needed to build octave packages) cannot > be found, and MacPorts will proceed to install octave.
I can’t figure out how to use octave select or octave_select. Jerry > > On Oct 27, 2016, at 3:11 PM, list_em...@icloud.com > <mailto:list_em...@icloud.com> wrote: > >> I recently did a fresh installation of MacPorts. I then installed >> octave-devel because the version given for it is 4.1.0+, more recent than >> that for octave the version of which is given as 4.0.3_1. >> >> I then did >> >> sudo port install octave-signal >> >> which immediately began trying to install octave 4.0.3_1. I control-C-ed out >> of that process after a few seconds after I realized what was happening. Now >> I have these questions: >> >> (1) Can I do a "sudo port clean --dist octave" to get rid of any junk that >> was installed by the aborted octave installation? >> >> (2) Can I install octave packages such as octave-signal into octave-devel? >> If so, how? Does this involve using octave_select? >> >> (3) If I need to revert to octave 4.0.3_1, how do I remove _all_ of >> octave-devel. In the past I have found that uninstalling ports doesn’t >> return my disk usage to what it was before installing, usually by several >> GB. I want to keep a lean and clean MacPorts installation. >> >> Thanks as usual. >> >> Jerry >> _______________________________________________ >> macports-users mailing list >> macports-users@lists.macosforge.org >> <mailto:macports-users@lists.macosforge.org> >> https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users > > Marius > -- > Marius Schamschula > > > >
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