Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] mkoctfile not installed in Wheezy

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 30 November 2012 10:40, Dimitri Maziuk <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 11/30/2012 9:32 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>>>
>>> On 30 November 2012 09:16, JuanPi <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I am testing octave in Wheezy and after installing from the pkg
>>>> manager mkoctfile is not in my system.
>>>
>>>
>>> It's in the liboctave-dev package. Normally mkoctfile shouldn't be
>>> necessary unless you're doing, well, -dev things.
>>
>>
>> Is "pkg install" a "-dev" thing?
>
> For Debian it is. Debian users should use "aptitude install
> octave-foo", not "pkg install foo". The Debian packagers work very
> hard to make sure the versions of the OF packages that they package
> work with the corresponding Octave version.
>
> - Jordi G. H.
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Answering the question would be useful, cause ther eis a lot of effort
put in making pkg.m more user friendly.

Is "pkg install" a dev thing?

If it is then Carnë's and others work has to be revised under this
new, not mentioned before, detail.