Re: Installing packages in octave on Ubuntu 12.04

[Ben Abbott]

On Dec 23, 2012, at 8:40 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:

> On 12/23/2012 07:36 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>> 
>> On Dec 23, 2012, at 7:22 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>> 
>>> On 12/23/2012 06:01 PM, Clydee wrote:
>>>> Jordi,
>>>> 
>>>> Under Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
>>>> 
>>>>> From the Octave manual, it tells me that I can download octave packages 
>>>>> and
>>>> install them simply with 
>>>> 
>>>> for example...
>>>> 
>>>> pkg install controll-1.0.11.tar.gz  
>>>> 
>>>> and I get Permission denied.  
>>>> 
>>>> Attempting the same wtih pkg install -forge control
>>>> 
>>>> returns 
>>>> warning: file -forge does not exist
>>>> warning: file control does not exist
>>>> 
>>>> Ubuntu software center knows nothing about Octave packages.
>>> 
>>> Did you try the synaptics package manager?
>>> 
>>> I must admit that my experience is with ubuntu 10, not 12.
>> 
>> For Ubuntu 12, Synaptic was replaced by the "Ubuntu Software Center".   I 
>> don't see any of Octave's packages available from the Ubuntu Software 
>> Center.  I also don't see them listed by "dpkg --list".
>> 
>> I'm only a novice with Linux, so maybe I'm missing something?
> 
> So, it is probably my mistake.  Sorry.
> 
> I'll be honest, I only tried Ubuntu 12 for a short while.  I didn't like
> it.  I dread the day that Ubuntu 10 stops their security updates.

Yeah, a lot changed from 10 to 12.  Since I'm not (yet) a big Linux user, I 
went ahead to move to 12.  Bit by bit I'm finding I like it.

Ben