On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 10:12:32AM -0700, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> severity 453128 important
> retitle 453128 octave-plplot: usage documentation out of date; hard to setup
> thanks
>
> The error message I showed was exactly what I got when I followed the
> directions as well as I could.
>
> My .octaverc was:
> addpath("/usr/share/plplot_octave/")
>
> I want plplot to be the default, so I followed those directions. I used
> addpath instead of the LOADPATH that the documentation says to use (mostly
> talking about INSTALL.octave.gz and USAGE.octave.gz).
>
> The documentation makes it very clear that the usual and standard way to use
> plplot is to set it up in your .octaverc to be the default. It only
> mentions toggle_plplot_use as an alternate way to do it if you wanted to
> also be able to keep using gnuplot (which I don't).
With octave 2.9 the trailing // to include all subdirectories in the
path no longer works. To correctly use addpath you need to add
addpath("/usr/share/plplot_octave/","/usr/share/plplot_octave/support/");
to your .octaverc so the support subdirectory is explicitly included in
the path.
> I adjusted the severity and retitled the bug, since this is mainly a
> documentation issue.
>
> Anyway, thanks for the help; I'm glad to have this working for myself. But
> it would be nice if it clearly documented how to get it to work by default,
> otherwise it's a regression from use with octave2.1, and it may be hard for
> other users in the future unless it's updated.
>
> Thanks! =)
The octave documentation has now been updated in subversion upstream and
will in time propagate into the Debian packages.
Andrew
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