Re: Problem with pkg

[Nir Krakauer]

Thanks, Juan.
For me also, Forge packages in the repository Ubuntu version of Octave
[1] are working fine.

However, with the development version I compiled from source, setting
the pkg prefix doesn't seem to help with the Forge packages being
listed.

[1] https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/octave

On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 5:39 PM Juan Pablo Carbajal
<ajuanpi+dev@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 1:01 AM Nir Krakauer <nirkrakauer@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Package management stopped working for me, maybe due to conflicts
> > between Octave versions (I recall several related bug reports being
> > filed against pkg lately, but they were supposed to have been fixed).
> > I can run `pkg install -forge -local name` successfully (the package
> > shows up in the Packages directory), but `pkg list` then continues to
> > give `no packages installed.` and I can't load and use the package.
> > `pkg rebuild` runs, but doesn't change matters. Any guidance on how to
> > troubleshoot this? I'm running the development branch of Octave on
> > Ubuntu, which built and tested fine.
> >
> Hi Nik,
> I am currently unable to compile in Ubuntu 20.04, so I am not running
> the latest commits from dev, but with the compiled version I have I do
> not see this problem.
> It might be because I define my own prefix for octave. My octaverc files has
>
> pkg prefix ~/.octave/ ~/.octave;
>
> check if by changing the prefix your problem is solved.