<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.5, http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <title>Administrating Packages (GNU Octave (version 5.1.0))</title> <meta name="description" content="Administrating Packages (GNU Octave (version 5.1.0))"> <meta name="keywords" content="Administrating Packages (GNU Octave (version 5.1.0))"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="makeinfo"> <link href="index.html#Top" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Concept-Index.html#Concept-Index" rel="index" title="Concept Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> <link href="Packages.html#Packages" rel="up" title="Packages"> <link href="Creating-Packages.html#Creating-Packages" rel="next" title="Creating Packages"> <link href="Using-Packages.html#Using-Packages" rel="prev" title="Using Packages"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em} blockquote.smallindentedblock {margin-right: 0em; font-size: smaller} blockquote.smallquotation {font-size: smaller} div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} div.lisp {margin-left: 3.2em} div.smalldisplay {margin-left: 3.2em} div.smallexample {margin-left: 3.2em} div.smalllisp {margin-left: 3.2em} kbd {font-style: oblique} pre.display {font-family: inherit} pre.format {font-family: inherit} pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} pre.smalldisplay {font-family: inherit; font-size: smaller} pre.smallexample {font-size: smaller} pre.smallformat {font-family: inherit; font-size: smaller} pre.smalllisp {font-size: smaller} span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap} span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal} span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal} ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} --> </style> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="octave.css"> </head> <body lang="en"> <a name="Administrating-Packages"></a> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="Creating-Packages.html#Creating-Packages" accesskey="n" rel="next">Creating Packages</a>, Previous: <a href="Using-Packages.html#Using-Packages" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Using Packages</a>, Up: <a href="Packages.html#Packages" accesskey="u" rel="up">Packages</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Concept-Index.html#Concept-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> <hr> <a name="Administrating-Packages-1"></a> <h3 class="section">37.3 Administrating Packages</h3> <p>On UNIX-like systems it is possible to make both per-user and system-wide installations of a package. If the user performing the installation is <code>root</code> the packages will be installed in a system-wide directory that defaults to <samp>OCTAVE_HOME/share/octave/packages/</samp>. If the user is not <code>root</code> the default installation directory is <samp>~/octave/</samp>. Packages will be installed in a subdirectory of the installation directory that will be named after the package. It is possible to change the installation directory by using the <code>pkg prefix</code> command </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">pkg prefix new_installation_directory </pre></div> <p>The current installation directory can be retrieved by typing </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">current_installation_directory = pkg ("prefix") </pre></div> <p>To function properly the package manager needs to keep some information about the installed packages. For per-user packages this information is by default stored in the file <samp>~/.octave_packages</samp> and for system-wide installations it is stored in <samp>OCTAVE_HOME/share/octave/octave_packages</samp>. The path to the per-user file can be changed with the <code>pkg local_list</code> command </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">pkg local_list /path/to/new_file </pre></div> <p>For system-wide installations this can be changed in the same way using the <code>pkg global_list</code> command. If these commands are called without a new path, the current path will be returned. </p> </body> </html>