Re: Installation error on Ubuntu 12.10 (x64) for Octave 3.6.2

[Mike Miller]

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 9:07 AM, cryingfist wrote:
> Mike Miller-2 wrote
>> Ok, can you try the following:
>>
>>   sudo apt-get purge libopenblas-base
>>
>> and try running octave again, does that change anything?
>
> It actually worked! The terminal printed the standard octave output (GNU
> Octave ... Octave was configured for "x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"...and the octave
> prompt).

It would be best if you reported this as an Ubuntu bug against the
openblas package, either via apport or at http://pad.lv/fb/u/openblas.

Also make sure you complete the octave post-installation that was failing:

  sudo dpkg --configure octave

> Just one last question: does the removal of libopenblas-base "endangers" the
> proper functioning of other softwares depending on them (on my workstation
> I'm thinking about the WRF-ARW weather model, mainly)?

I honestly can't say. All I can say is that I don't see any packages
in Ubuntu itself that strictly depend on libopenblas-base being
installed. It is intended to be a drop-in alternative to the standard
BLAS library that improves performance but apparently has problems on
some systems. Just keep it in mind if you do run into problems. Or
report the bug to Ubuntu and maybe it fixed so you can use openblas.

-- 
mike