<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 27, 2016, at 1:29 PM, Marius Schamschula <<a href="mailto:lists@schamschula.com" class="">lists@schamschula.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Jerry,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>I can’t figure out how to use octave select or octave_select.</div><div>Jerry</div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class="">On Oct 27, 2016, at 3:11 PM, <a href="mailto:list_email@icloud.com" class="">list_email@icloud.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite" class="">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.<br class=""><br class="">I then did <br class=""><br class="">sudo port install octave-signal<br class=""><br class="">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:<br class=""><br class="">(1) Can I do a "sudo port clean --dist octave" to get rid of any junk that was installed by the aborted octave installation?<br class=""><br class="">(2) Can I install octave packages such as octave-signal into octave-devel? If so, how? Does this involve using octave_select?<br class=""><br class="">(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.<br class=""><br class="">Thanks as usual.<br class=""><br class="">Jerry<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">macports-users mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:macports-users@lists.macosforge.org" class="">macports-users@lists.macosforge.org</a><br class=""><a href="https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users" class="">https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users</a><br class=""></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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