[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #58299] Local packages for different Octave versions cannot be installed in parallel

[Markus Mützel]

Follow-up Comment #10, bug #58299 (project octave):

The attached patch moves the local package installation folder to the platform
specific user data path and adds the Octave API version string, e.g.
`/home/osboxes/.local/share/octave/api-v55+/packages`.
Similarly, it moves the local package configuration file to the platform
specific user config path and adds the Octave API version string, too, e.g.
`/home/osboxes/.config/octave/api-v55+/.octave_packages`.

I opted for the Octave API version string because that string will probably
differ for incompatible binaries.

Until now, I only did some minor testing on Ubuntu 20.10. But I hope this will
work on all platforms.


(file #51102)
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