Re: Question to Debian Etch users: Has someone managed to install the Octave-forge package for Octave 2.9

[Mohamed Kammoun]

Hi Stefan,

I recommend you to forget about octave-forge on debian.
The most stable way I found is to install the needed packages manually
by using octave package manager.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/02/msg02128.html


regards,

M.K.


On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Thomas Weber
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
>
>  Am Montag, den 25.02.2008, 08:19 +0100 schrieb Stefan Pofahl:
>
> > Hello,
>  >
>  > yesterday I tried to install the Octave-forge package
>  > from the Debian "etch" distribution, I failed, after
>  > the installation the plot function was corrupt:
>  > Error message:
>  > feval: the symbol 'drawnow' is not a valid function"
>
>  What packages are you using?
>
>
>
>  > So there are two ways:
>  > Someone knows the trick how to install:
>  > Octave-forge package 2.9(2006.07.09+dfsg1-8)
>
>  uh, "aptitude install octave2.9-forge"?
>
>
>
>  > or someone knows
>  > a Debian etch compatible octave3.0 package.
>
>  I'm not aware of any. A simple recompile of the 'sid' packages won't do,
>  library names have changed.
>
>
>
>  > But I failed to install the Octave3.0 from the "sid"
>  > distribution.
>
>  Eh, yes. That's expected and with the ongoing switch from g77 to
>  gfortran, you shouldn't mix these things at all. Non-obvious bugs will
>  appear (like complex dot products not working), when mixing g77 and
>  gfortran-compiled binaries.
>
>         Thomas
>
>
>
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