Re: Octave 3.4.3 in Ubuntu 11.10

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello
>
> On Ubuntu 11.10, octave 3.6.0 works fine. (build by myself)
> Why do not you build and make a package of octave 3.6.0?
>
> Regards
>
> Tatsuro
>
> --- On Wed, 2012/1/25, Juan Pablo Carbajal  wrote:
>
>> 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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>> > http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Octave-3-4-3-in-Ubuntu-11-10-tp3947501p4326065.html
>> > Sent from the Octave - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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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
>> -----
>> PhD Student
>> University of Zürich
>> http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/
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I am waiting to be able to produce "good" packages and start
publishing them in a PPA.
Jordi will help me to learn how to do this on 20. Feb.
I hope a first package will be available short after that (I hope! I hope!)


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