I have no problems working in Octave in any Ubuntu versions.
As I mentioned before I just manually copied all packages files to
usr/share/octave/packages directory.
You probably know that in order to do it I need admin privileges. That is
how they built Ubuntu now!
In Ubuntu 10.04 LTS there were not any problems installing packages through
Ubuntu Software Center. Center elevated installation manager to admin
automatically if needed asking password.
There is no packages in any Ubuntu Software Center in versions 10.10 and
latest 12.04 LTS!!!
They probably decided to take it out because there are QT Octave
environment proposed (similar to Matlab) that is really nice. QT Octave
has packages installation manager that seems like works correctly but is
is not. It copies all files to TMP directory in File System but not moving to
usr/share/octave/packages directory. Or probably it tries to move without
success but not generating error message.
I tried to use usual way of packages installation through Octave terminal
and it is obviously giving me a fail!!! With reason of impossibility to copy
files to restricted usr/share/octave/packages directory without admin
privileges.
That is why I am proposing to implement in Octave terminal the “SUDO
manager”, or call is as you want, that will elevate Octave application to
administrative privileges if needed.
I have never worked in Debain but in Ubuntu you can have TEMPORARY admin
privileges only through “SUDO” command in OS terminal. Again! That is how they
built Ubuntu and until you have not experienced working in different versions
of Ubuntu OSs it is impossible to understand what I am talking
about.
Again. I am not a guru in Linux and just a simple user of Ubuntu Operating
system using standard available application. But I love Octave and want to
prefect myself using it in my business.
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20 April 2012 08:23, mesuron <<A
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Please try it yourself and you will see what I mean.
I don't have Ubuntu
nor the inclination at presetn to install it to
see what you're talking
about. I use Debian, and I believe Ubuntu uses
the Debian Octave packages
without modification, so I
I need a precise description of what you're
typing, what you're
seeing, and why you think you need admin privileges.
When you do "pkg
forge -install control" inside Octave what are you seeing?
You should
not need admin privileges to do this.
> And why I need
to install packages in Home directory if I need them
> in active Octave
directory as it arranged in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
I don't know what an active
directory is. If you install packages in
your home directory using the pkg
command, Octave will find these
packages
> And another question.
Why Octave has to install F-pkgs differently
> in different releases of
Ubuntu?
It doesn't. Each should be the same always. I don't understand
what
problem you're facing.
There is nobody in Ubuntu creating or
maintaining Octave packages. The
packagers are in Debian, and a couple of
years ago the packager doing
most of the work, Rafael Laboissiere, retired.
He recently temporarily
came out of retirement and through laudable effort,
combined with
Thomas Weber and Sébastian Villemot, have finally updated the
Octave-Forge packages. But you can still use the old Octave packages
as
packaged for Debian and which Ubuntu took.
> Would be nice if you
show me how to install package directly from
> Octave terminal in Ubuntu
12.04 LTS or 10.10 for example so loading
> it will not end up with
message “package is not installed”
Where are you seeing this
message? I don't believe Octave produces
such a message.
I don't
understand what problems you're facing, so you need to give me
a very
precise and thorough description.
- Jordi G. H.
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