Re: error: feval: function `unimplemented' not found

[Mike Miller]

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 4 March 2013 10:25, eric herbert <address@hidden> wrote:
>> congrats !! I can't really understand why,  but It seems to works now.
>> Maybe this line I never used :
>>
>> $ sudo rm -f /var/lib/dpkg/info/octave.p*
>> thanks...
>
> If that command helped you, there's a packaging bug. Please report it.

Maybe. The octave.postinst script runs "pkg rebuild", which I suspect
was failing with the feval error reported, because for some reason the
pkg command, and all other commands under /usr/share/octave, were not
being found by this install. That's the root problem that I don't
think we can answer without being able to reproduce this. Maybe
/usr/share/octave/<something> had been moved or removed through some
means other than dpkg, maybe a manual rm or a "make uninstall". Should
the octave package be robust enough to handle users doing things like
that?

-- 
mike