2009/8/30 Tatsuro MATSUOKA
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The pkg install command use temporary directory to extract a package, carry out configureation and
make binaries.
I suspect that your temporary directory does allow 'w' attribution.
Please type tmpnam at the octave prompt
octave>tmpnam
and get the name the temporary directory name
and confirm the attribution of the temporary directory
octave>ls -l (tmp diretoryname)/..
>> tmpnam
ans = /tmp/oct-SZWwgP
>> ls -l /tmp/oct-SZWwgP/..
ls: cannot access /tmp/oct-SZWwgP/..: No such file or directory
error: ls: command exited abnormally with status 2
error: called from:
error: /usr/share/octave/3.2.0/m/miscellaneous/ls.m at line 66, column 2
For what it's worth, every time I type tmpnam I get a different temporary directory. Don't know if that helps or not, but I figure I'll mention it.
-Ron