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I am running raspbian on a Raspberry-Pi 2 B. I am trying to install the instrument-control package in octave 3.6.2.Initially I got a mkoctfile missing error: Installing octave package in ubuntu http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=955385

With 'sudo apt-get install octave-pkg-dev' this problem was solved.

However, when I try to install the instrument-control package in octave with: 'pkg install -forge instrument-control' nothing is happening, the command prompt underscore is just flickering as if it is processing something, but nothing happens for at least half an hour (I didn't try longer). I tried running octave as superuser, but the same thing happened.

I would very much appreciate if someone could help me out on this.

NB This is my first post here, and am not a super-experienced computerist so please tell me if I need to provide more information in any form.

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Sven van der Burg
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    Thanks for the comment! It turned out that it actually takes longer than 30 minutes to compile all the necessary files, so you just have to wait longer... When using -verbose this becomes apparant. – Sven van der Burg Mar 26 '15 at 15:48

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It turned out that it actually takes longer than 30 minutes to compile all the necessary files, so octave is actually doing something. You just have to wait longer. When using -verbose this becomes more clear.

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The downloading process might be hanging.

As a workaround, you can download the instrument-control package there.

Put it in your directory on the raspberry.

And then, in octave launched from the same directory, issue

pkg install instrument-control-0.2.1.tar.gz
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