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.
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.