I'm trying to install Octave in my work computer but I can't make it. I want use Cygwin to install a package called octave-3.8.2-1 but I can't find it. Any clue why it does not appear where it is supposed to be.
If you want to use Cygwin it's in the "math" section. Are you really stuck to cygwin? If not I would suggest the inofficial installer from http://mxeoctave.osuv.de/
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I'm trying to use Octave instead of MATLAB in order to run the Motion tracking software found here :
http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~wauthier/tracker/
To run octave I am using Cygwin. I've run into the issue that the GraphicsMagick configuration that comes with Cygwin is set to: --with-quantum-depth=16 when I need: --with-quantum-depth=32. I have installed and configured the same version of GraphicsMagick elsewhere on my computer. My question is how can I configure the pre-existing GraphicsMagick so that I may handle the larger images I need or how can I configure octave inside Cygwin to use the other install of GraphicsMagick.
While Searching I came upon this:
http://jethomson.wordpress.com/2010/08/22/enable-octave-to-read-16-bit-images/
I am hesitant to use this as it uses Debian and I am unsure how to modify it in order to work in Cygwin.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I need to get node.js for a program I'm installing in Cygwin, and I'm wondering if the Linux download at nodejs.org is going to work, or does something like this for Cygwin need to be built from source? I tried downloading the linux tarball and incorporating into the installation script for Oppia (the program I'm installing) and it doesn't work, but I don't know enough about this to know what's wrong.
I suppose node.js on cygwin is not really supported. I worked with node.js under cygwin, installed with Windows installer. There are some problems, especially when there are dependencies on paths (/cygdrive/c/...). I haven't tried to build from source, but asked the guys on the node.js google group a similar question, but they just said: not supported.
So probably it's better to write those unbelievable ugly .bat/.cmd scripts and use the DOS shell commands when working with Windows (which I hate so much). I tried to use PowerShell, but it was no improvement, it's odd compared to bash.
I am trying to run android ndk-build command in the cygwin terminal.
When I do it is telling me ...
ERROR: Cannot find 'make' program. Please install Cygwin make package
or define the GNUMAKE variable to point to it.
The thing is, I believe I have all the cygwin packages installed. And other topics have suggested running installing and being sure to check the devel>make option as a package. Porblem is, is that there seems to be no make option in the devel package folder.
Does anyone have any insight on this?
NDK comes with its own make, the copy that comes with cygwin has quite a few incompatibilities. You don't need cygwin at all to run the latest versions of NDK (since r6, IIRC). I usually run ndk-build.cmd in a CMD window where cygwin is not on the PATH.
I was trying to get octave to work, and figured it needed gnuplot which needed gnuplot-nox which needed to be installed via Fink. I have usually stuck to using homebrew for my package installs.
Are there any problems with having homebrew as your primary package manager while using Fink for installing certain specific packages? Do they ever conflict? Does it make the system unstable?
Homebrew and Fink can coexist, but you need to be careful about not making a mess. In particular, since Homebrew usually builds from source, it could be a problem if you accidentally link Homebrew formulas^Wformulae against Fink-installed software, because the next upgrade might break the dependency. (That problem is probably much less likely now with Homebrew's superenv.) Basically, you need to do the job of the package manager yourself.
That said, Homebrew has an octave formula in the homebrew/science tap, so maybe you could just use that.
I just installed Cygwin and can launch a bash shell from windows, do ls, emacs, vi , etc. However, when I do g++ it says command not found.
I thought g++ was installed by default in Cygwin? If that's not the case, what are the exact categories under which I can add g++ as a package to my cygwin?
Did you install the Devel packages?
I would suggest you read this tutorial to get up and running.
It's a good idea to just install everything with CygWin. When you run setup, just click on the circular icon at the top level until it reads "Full" rather then "Default" - that will install all the packages.
I've sometimes had trouble installing single packages due to dependencies but a full install is not affected by that same problem.
Disk space is cheap, your time spent trying to figure out why things don't work is not.