Package Install Problems

[Thomas D. Dean]

I have a problem with the linear-algebra, general, and miscellaneous
packages.

Octave 4.3.0+ as of September 2, 2017.

I have installed these packages on another system. (see below)

The general package fails

octave:3> pkg install -forge general
unpackfields.cc: In function ‘octave_value_list Funpackfields(const
octave_value_list&, int)’:
unpackfields.cc:78:37: error: ‘symbol_table’ has not been declared
           octave_value struct_val = symbol_table::varval (struct_name);


I think I must have some setup missing, etc.

Any ideas?

Tom Dean

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On a different Ubuntu 16.04 system:

P9X79> /usr/local/bin/octave
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octave:1> pkg list
Package Name        | Version | Installation directory
--------------------+---------+-----------------------
       complex_pkg  |   1.0.0 | /home/tomdean/octave/complex_pkg-1.0.0
           control  |   3.0.0 | /home/tomdean/octave/control-3.0.0
    data-smoothing  |   1.3.0 | /home/tomdean/octave/data-smoothing-1.3.0
           general  |   2.0.0 | /home/tomdean/octave/general-2.0.0
          geometry  |   3.0.0 | /home/tomdean/octave/geometry-3.0.0
             image  |   2.6.1 | /home/tomdean/octave/image-2.6.1
 image-acquisition  |   0.2.2 |
/home/tomdean/octave/image-acquisition-0.2.2
instrument-control  |   0.3.0 |
/home/tomdean/octave/instrument-control-0.3.0
                io  |   2.4.7 | /home/tomdean/octave/io-2.4.7
    linear-algebra  |   2.2.2 | /home/tomdean/octave/linear-algebra-2.2.2
           mapping  |   1.2.1 | /home/tomdean/octave/mapping-1.2.1
     miscellaneous  |   1.2.1 | /home/tomdean/octave/miscellaneous-1.2.1
               ocs  |   0.1.5 | /home/tomdean/octave/ocs-0.1.5
            odebvp  |   1.0.6 | /home/tomdean/octave/odebvp-1.0.6
            odepkg  |   0.9.1 | /home/tomdean/octave/odepkg-0.9.1
             optim  |   1.5.2 | /home/tomdean/octave/optim-1.5.2
        quaternion  |   2.4.0 | /home/tomdean/octave/quaternion-2.4.0
            signal  |   1.3.2 | /home/tomdean/octave/signal-1.3.2
           sockets  |   1.2.0 | /home/tomdean/octave/sockets-1.2.0
           specfun  |   1.1.0 | /home/tomdean/octave/specfun-1.1.0
        statistics  |   1.3.0 | /home/tomdean/octave/statistics-1.3.0
            struct  |  1.0.14 | /home/tomdean/octave/struct-1.0.14
          symbolic  |   2.6.0 | /home/tomdean/octave/symbolic-2.6.0
           tomdean  |   1.0.0 | /home/tomdean/octave/tomdean-1.0.0