Re: octave 4.4 for Fedora 28/29

[Colin Macdonald]

On 2018-11-19 7:31 p.m., Orion Poplawski wrote:
> FYI -
>
>     I'm trying out the new Modular / AppStream functionality of Fedora 
> 28+ to try to provide octave 4.4 (currently 4.4.1) updates.  I've just 
> submitted the octave 4.4 module to the updates-testing-modular repo. I'd 
> be grateful for those of you on Fedora to give it a try.

Orion,

TL;DR it works on F28.

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I've not poked at modules yet so this seemed a good time to try... I'll 
document below on F28 in case others were also unsure how to play with 
the New Shiny...

# dnf install fedora-repos-modular

# dnf module list

There was no Octave, presumably b/c its in testing still, so I enabled
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-testing-modular.repo

# dnf module list

octave                            4.4                         20181118231341

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# dnf module install octave:4.4
Last metadata expiration check: 0:04:19 ago on Fri 23 Nov 2018 10:01:28 
AM PST.
Error: No such profile: octave:4.4:20181118231341/default

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So then I tried:

# dnf module enable octave:4.4
'octave:4.4' is enabled

# dnf install octave
Dependencies resolved.
=========================================================================================================================================
 Package                     Arch                Version 
                      Repository                            Size
=========================================================================================================================================
Upgrading:
 octave                      x86_64 
6:4.4.1-1.module_2492+8a359c74               updates-testing-modular 
          16 M
 octave-devel                x86_64 
6:4.4.1-1.module_2492+8a359c74               updates-testing-modular 
         549 k
 octave-doctest              noarch 
0.6.1-4.module_2492+8a359c74                 updates-testing-modular 
          28 k

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Now my /usr/bin/octave is 4.4.1.  No idea where my old 4.2 octave is 
because AFAICT it never uninstalled the old RPM.  Probably I just don't 
understand modular yet.

thanks,
Colin