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The octave-arpack Portfile 57375 2009-09-10 08:16:41Z ryandesign macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: octave-arpack
Version: 1.0.8
Category: math science
Platform: darwin
Maintainers: and.damore alakazam
Description: Octave bindings to ARPACK, including the eigs and svds function.
Long Description: ${description}

Homepage: http://octave.sourceforge.net/
Master Sites: sourceforge:octave

distname arpack-$version

Checksums: md5 dbf767019e238c4a16ccc6cac2afe87c sha1 3fa7847b6bedb2379ff51399195481fbfe2e4b89 rmd160 0d16b935f72b8b7c32721216edf09935eeb8e50f

depends_lib-append port:octave port:arpack

post-destroot {
move ${destroot}${prefix}/share/octave/octave_packages ${destroot}${prefix}/share/octave/octave_packages_${name}
}

post-activate {
system "octave --eval \"pkg rebuild\""
}

livecheck.type regex
livecheck.url http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.html
livecheck.regex http://downloads\.sourceforge\.net/octave/arpack-(\\d+(\\.\\d+)*)\.tar\.gz

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/octave-arpack
%  sudo port install octave-arpack  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching octave-arpack
--->  Verifying checksum for octave-arpack
--->  Extracting octave-arpack
--->  Configuring octave-arpack
--->  Building octave-arpack with target all

--->  Staging octave-arpack into destroot

--->  Installing octave-arpack

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using octave-arpack with these commands:

%  man octave-arpack
%  apropos octave-arpack
%  which octave-arpack
%  locate octave-arpack

 Where to find more information: