Re: (At least apparently) unable to install packages

[Mike Miller]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 7:52 AM, afullo wrote:
> Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64 bit. ;)

Which is Octave 3.2.4, which did not support the "-forge" option.

On Ubuntu in general you should install the Octave packages from the
Ubuntu repos with the Ubuntu Software Center or apt-get. However, the
nurbs package was not in the Ubuntu repos in 12.04.

Assuming you need the nurbs package, you have a few choices, pick 1 of
these 3, whichever is easiest for you and your system:

1) Download nurbs from http://octave.sourceforge.net/ and then "pkg
install nurbs-<version>.tar.gz" within Octave in the directory that
the file was downloaded in. Make sure you have installed
octave3.2-headers from Ubuntu first.

2) Add the Octave team PPA to your system and install the latest
stable Octave release, then reinstall all needed packages using "pkg
install -forge <package>". Instructions are at
https://launchpad.net/~octave/+archive/stable. The package is now
named octave instead of octave3.2.

3) Upgrade to Ubuntu 12.10 or (soon to be released) 13.04 and install
octave-nurbs from the Ubuntu repos.

-- 
mike