Re: pkg problems

[Carnë Draug]

On 23 November 2012 00:00, Terry Duell <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello All,
> I am running Octave 3.6.3 on Fedora 17 x86_64, installed from the Fedora
> repo.
> If I run the command 'pkg update', Octave complains that the 'general'
> package is required, but it is installed.
> A list of installed packages returns;
>
> octave:4> pkg list
> Package Name   | Version | Installation directory
> ---------------+---------+-----------------------
>         image *|  1.0.15 | /usr/share/octave/packages/image-1.0.15
>          java *|   1.2.9 | /home/terry/octave/java-1.2.9
>          lssa  |   0.1.2 | /home/terry/octave/lssa-0.1.2
> miscellaneous *|   1.1.0 | /home/terry/octave/miscellaneous-1.1.0
>         optim *|   1.2.0 | /home/terry/octave/optim-1.2.0
>        struct *|  1.0.10 | /home/terry/octave/struct-1.0.10
>
> and my /home/terry/octave dir has the following;
>
> address@hidden octave]$ ls -al
> total 88
> drwxr-xr-x.  20 terry terry  4096 Oct 18 08:49 .
> drwx------. 149 terry terry 12288 Nov 23 10:38 ..
> drwxrwxr-x.   4 terry terry  4096 Aug 11  2011 combinatorics-1.0.9
> drwxr-xr-x.  10 terry terry  4096 Apr 15  2012 control-2.3.50
> drwxr-xr-x.   3 terry terry  4096 Aug 11  2011 fpl-1.2.0
> drwxr-xr-x.   6 terry terry  4096 Aug 11  2011 general-1.2.2
> drwxr-xr-x.   3 terry terry  4096 Aug 11  2011 gnuplot-1.0.1
> drwxr-xr-x.   4 terry terry  4096 Aug 11  2011 io-1.0.14
> drwxrwxr-x.   5 terry terry  4096 Aug 15 13:15 java-1.2.9
> drwxr-xr-x.   6 terry terry  4096 Aug 11  2011 linear-algebra-2.0.0
> drwxrwxr-x.   4 terry terry  4096 Aug 20 15:28 lssa-0.1.2
> drwxrwxr-x.   4 terry terry  4096 Jun 15 13:47 miscellaneous-1.1.0
> drwxr-xr-x.   5 terry terry  4096 Oct 17  2011 odepkg-0.8.0
> drwxrwxr-x.   6 terry terry  4096 Jun 15 13:48 optim-1.2.0
> drwxr-xr-x.   3 terry terry  4096 Aug 11  2011 plot-1.0.8
> drwxr-xr-x.   5 terry terry  4096 May 13  2012 signal-1.1.3
> drwxr-xr-x.   4 terry terry  4096 Aug 11  2011 specfun-1.0.9
> drwxr-xr-x.   3 terry terry  4096 Aug 11  2011 statistics-1.0.10
> drwxrwxr-x.   4 terry terry  4096 Jun 15 13:46 struct-1.0.10
> drwxr-xr-x.   5 terry terry  4096 Aug 11  2011 vrml-1.0.11
>
> Octave does know about these packages, as 'help pwelch' returns a story
> about that function in the signal package.
>
> Is there something I need to do to ensure that 'pkg update' and 'pgk list'
> correctly see the packages that are installed, or is pkg broken somehow?

At the moment pkg is a bit broken when you mix local and global
packages. Seems like you installed some with Fedora package manager
and others pkg. That tends to create problems. We are working on this
and hopefully should be fixed in the next version.

Carnë