>You misunderstood my comment.
>When you installed Debian on your PC did you install ALL packages in the distribution?
>If you did not, why would you want to do that with Octave?
I downloaded linux mint, the ISO image, installed it. I have no idea what is in it. I installed the whole ISO image, what ever linux mint comes with, it installed. New disk, new OS.
After I installed linux, I then installed octave using apt.