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

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden> [2012-12-01 14:50]:

> 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.

This discussion would be more appropriate in the mailing list of the 
Debian Octave Group.  Please, move it there.

Rafael