Flummoxed again by Octave

[Marius Schamschula]

Jerry,

To list the installed versions of octave-devel:

post select octave

to select a particular version, e.g. octave-devel-rc:

sudo port select octave octave-devel-rc

On Oct 27, 2016, at 5:59 PM, list_email at icloud.com wrote:

>> 
>> On Oct 27, 2016, at 1:29 PM, Marius Schamschula <lists at 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_email at 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
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>> Marius
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