[Neurodebian-users] Installation issues PTB Octave

[Neil Dundon]

Thanks for the reply Yaroslav,

That worked!  I ran (sudo) apt-get install liboctave-dev any reason why the
install didn't take care of that?

As it happens, I also had to run sudo apt-get upgrade alsa-utils to get
PsychPortAudio to work...

On 1 March 2016 at 19:47, Yaroslav Halchenko <debian at onerussian.com> wrote:

>
> 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.listÂ
>
> >  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? ;)
>
> --
> Yaroslav O. Halchenko, Ph.D.
> http://neuro.debian.net http://www.pymvpa.org http://www.fail2ban.org
> Research Scientist,            Psychological and Brain Sciences Dept.
> Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755
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