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Re: Has Package Directory Moved?
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Andrew Janke |
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Re: Has Package Directory Moved? |
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Thu, 27 Jan 2022 23:17:53 -0500 |
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On 1/27/22 10:07 PM, Thomas D. Dean wrote:
GNU Octave, version 7.0.1 from hg source
It appears that octave no longer looks into the $(HOME)/octave directory
for packages.
octave:1> ver
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GNU Octave Version: 7.0.1 (hg id: 02b11b9f1e61+)
[...]
>pkg install --forge control
creates a directory ~/.local/share/octave
I have octave installed in /usr/local
This reeks of windows. How do I fix this?
Tom Dean
That's the FreeDesktop/XDG User Dirs specification, not Windows.
* https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/file-hierarchy.html
* https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs/
Dunno when Octave adopted it.
Cheers,
Andrew