Re: Octave 3.4.3 in Ubuntu 11.10

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 2:26 AM, mmesser314 <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks for creating the binary package to install Octave 3.4.3 in Ubuntu
> 11.10.
> I just tried installing it and had a few problems. I may have got Octave
> working.
> Sorry this is so verbose.
>
> My OS is 32 bit Windows Vista. I am using VMware Player to host Ubuntu
> 11.10.
> I had Octave 3.2 installed from the package provided by the Ubuntu Software
> Center.  I uninstalled it.
> Just before installing, I received a notification that a system update is
> needed. I did the update.
>
> --- Warning on install
> To get the package, I clicked on a link at the Octave project's
> http://www.octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=Octave_for_GNU_Linux:_Binary_Octave_packages_for_GNU_Linux#Debian_Development_Sources
> Octave for GNU Linux: Binary Octave packages for GNU Linux  page.
> I took the default choice of having the Ubuntu Software Center download the
> package.
> The Software Center popped open a dialog titled "The package is of bad
> quality". It contains dire warnings about serious problems, and this message
> in a details box:
>
>
> I clicked the 'Ignore and install' button. Installation completed
> successfully.
>
> --- Missing libraries
> When I open a terminal and type octave, I get an error message:
>   octave: error while loading shared libraries: libhdf5.so.6: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> This post made me think the missing library was deleted by the system
> update.
> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Problem-with-shared-library-libhdf5-so-6-td2312412.html
>
> 'locate libhdf5' reported this
>
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libhdf5-serial-1.8.4_1.8.4-patch1-2ubuntu4_i386.deb
>   /var/lib/dpkg/info/libhdf5-serial-1.8.4.list
>   /var/lib/dpkg/info/libhdf5-serial-1.8.4.postrm
>
> I searched the Software Center and found a libhdf5-serial-1.8.4 package. I
> installed it.
> I tried to start Octave. It is now missing liblapack3gf. I installed it.
> I also had to install libcholmod1.7.1, libumfpack5.4.0, libcxsparse.2.2.3,
> libqrupdate1, and libfftw3.
> Octave started up.
>
> I typed 'help inv'. I got this error message.
>   sh: makeinfo: not found
>   warning: help: Texinfo formatting filter exited abnormally; raw Texinfo
> source of help text follows...
>
> Installed Octave again. No complaint about package quality this time.
> Now 'help inv' works. But I don't feel confident that all is well.
>
> --- Questions
> I don't know what went wrong.
>   Is the package missing all these dependencies?
>   Did the system update remove all these missing libraries?
>   Should I not have removed Octave 3.2?
> None of these sound like good explanations.
>
>   Should I not have ingored the "The package is of bad quality" message?
>
>
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Hi,
First of all, the binaries where created using checkinstall and
therefore they are not "good" packages. So, the warning is not out of
place.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CheckInstall
Starting in Feb 20, I will try to create proper packages and not this
quick fixes.

In any case I never used the software center to install it, just
> sudo dpkg -i debFileName

Finally, in the link you send to the wiki there are a series of
previous steps to follow. Like getting all the dependencies. Did you
follow these steps?
I think that if you got it running everything will be ok... and if it
doesn't you will get errors

Sorry for the inconveniences, I will create good packages a.s.a.p.

-- 
M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
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PhD Student
University of Zürich
http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/