Re: Problem installing packages

[Martin Helm]

Am 28.05.2012 23:35, schrieb Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso:
> This is because nobody is has take the trouble to properly package OF
> for rpm-based distros since the prehistoric monolithic OF releases. So
> yes, because nobody is doing it there, you *have* to do it yourself
> and compile from source. But on Debian someone is taking care of the
> packaging and compiling, so there's no need for most users to do it
> again. - Jordi G. H. 
Completely not true, the science repository in openSUSE which is
specialized for this kind of packages ships the OF packages as single
packages and not since yesterday but for a long time.
You seem to tend to draw generalized conclusions without evidence, sorry.
Do not read something into my post which I did not wrote and which is
simply wrong.
The fact that I compile them myself is because I prefer that not because
the distro do not ship them and btw this has absolutely nothing to do
with the fact that the behavior seen in the post with the strange error
messages about octave trying to install packages globally while
obviously invoked as normal user is not the upstream octave behavior.
I cannot see that kind of behavior with the self compiled octave on my
PC and I cannot see that behavior on my ThinkPad which uses octave the
same version 3.6.1 but from the openSUSE repositories.