Flummoxed again by Octave

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> On Oct 27, 2016, at 1:29 PM, Marius Schamschula <lists at schamschula.com> wrote:
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> 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
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> On Oct 27, 2016, at 3:11 PM, list_email at icloud.com <mailto:list_email at icloud.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> I then did 
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>> sudo port install octave-signal
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>> 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:
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>> (1) Can I do a "sudo port clean --dist octave" to get rid of any junk that was installed by the aborted octave installation?
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>> (2) Can I install octave packages such as octave-signal into octave-devel? If so, how? Does this involve using octave_select?
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>> (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
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