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diff --git a/docs/userguide.rst b/docs/userguide.rst index 448d3e6..da81089 100644 --- a/docs/userguide.rst +++ b/docs/userguide.rst @@ -9,9 +9,11 @@ Installing g-Octave ------------------- The ebuilds for g-Octave will be available on the Portage tree as soon -as possible. For now, they can be found on my overlay: +as possible. For now, they can be found on the Gentoo ``science`` overlay. +To install it with ``layman`` and ``git`` installed, type:: + + # layman -a science -http://overlay.rafaelmartins.eng.br/ After you have the overlay installed, you can install the package, using: :: @@ -35,16 +37,16 @@ release will need to unmask the ebuild too, adding this to The source code of g-Octave can be found in this Mercurial repository: -http://hg.rafaelmartins.eng.br/g-octave/ +http://g-octave.rafaelmartins.eng.br/hg/ You can clone the mercurial repository using this command (with Mercurial installed, of course):: - $ hg clone http://hg.rafaelmartins.eng.br/g-octave/ + $ hg clone http://g-octave.rafaelmartins.eng.br/hg/ g-octave The release tarballs can be found here: -http://files.rafaelmartins.eng.br/distfiles/g-octave/ +http://g-octave.rafaelmartins.eng.br/distfiles/releases/ Configuring g-Octave @@ -106,8 +108,8 @@ For example: :: # g-octave control-1.0.11 -g-octave command tool supports some options for the installation of -packages: +``g-octave`` command-line tool supports some options for the installation +of packages: ``-a`` or ``--ask`` Ask before install the package @@ -123,6 +125,25 @@ or :: # g-octave -i packagename +Installing packages from the octave-forge SVN repository +-------------------------------------------------------- + +If you want to test some new feature, or to use the new version of the +packages ever, you'll like to install your packages directly from the +SVN repository. + +To install a package from SVN, type:: + + # g-octave packagename-9999 + +All the common g-octave options for install packages are allowed, and +the special version ``9999`` says to g-octave that you want to use the +SVN version. + +In order to be able to install packages from svn you need to install +g-octave with the USE flag ``svn`` enabled. + + Uninstalling packages --------------------- |