[Neurodebian-users] Installation issues PTB Octave

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

On Tue, 01 Mar 2016, Neil Dundon wrote:

>    Dear all,

>    The other night I successfully installed and PsychToolbox via Octave on
>    Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 32-bit on Oracal VirtualBox 5.0.14.  Exact as
>    instructed:Â 

>  wget -O- http://neuro.debian.net/lists/trusty.de-md.full | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/neurodebian.sources.list 

>  sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu:80 0xA5D32F012649A5A9

>  sudo apt-get update

>  sudo apt-get install octave-psychtoolbox-3

>    I then ran PsychLinuxUpdate in command line octave, and after a reboot,
>    everything worked fine.

Either I am out of luck or ... -- where is PsychLinuxUpdate comes from?

>    Following this, I reinstalled VirtualBox to another disk space,
>    reinstalled everything exactly as above and it didn't work.  Any time I
>    try to run basic PTB functions, e.g., Screen('OpenWindow',0,0);, it gives
>    me the error:
>    error: /usr/share/octave/site/m/psychtoolbox-3/PsychBasic/Screen.mex:
>    failed to load: liboctinterp.so: cannot open shared object file: No such
>    file or directory

that one comes from liboctave* package... dunno exact one on trusty AT
just do

apt-get install liboctave-dev

which should pull it in

>    I've tried on the same flavour of Ubuntu on other VirtualBoxes on other
>    machines, trying both 32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu, reformatting and
>    reinstalling several times, exactly as above and always the same
>    errors....
>    Please put me out of my misery and let me know what bone-head mistake I
>    keep making!

what if you try some other than trusty?  what about Debian jessie? ;)

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