I have installed octave with the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:picaso/octave
sudo apt-get install octave
Then from octave I used the following command:
pkg install -forge symbolic
I got the following error:
configure: error: SymPy version 0.7.5 or later is required
checking for sort... /usr/bin/sort
checking for GNU coreutils... yes
checking for python... /usr/bin/python
checking python module: sympy... yes
checking for SymPy version... 0.7.4.1
checking for gawk... gawk
pkg: error running the configure script for symbolic.
error: called from 'configure_make' in file /usr/share/octave/4.0.0/m/pkg/private/configure_make.m near line 79, column 9
I installed python sympy with:
sudo apt-get install python-sympy
I restarted the operating system and tried again but still the same error.
python-sympy
is 0.7.4.1. You might have to dopip install --user sympy
or something.