Re: Howto use Debian octave-forge package?

[Geordie McBain]

Yep, that does the trick.  Thanks!

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:17 pm, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 11:01:39AM -0400, Geordie McBain wrote:
> > I think the problem here is that the octave-forge functions are going
> > into /usr/{lib,share}/octave/2.1.50 whereas the current Debian
> > ("testing") octave version is 2.1.57.
>
> Exactly --- as the version number is encoded in the path by octave itself,
> you always need matching octave and octave-forge versions.  We try hard to
> ensure this at the 'fresh' end of the distribution, i.e. in unstable. It is
> harder to ensure in the 'matured' brand (i.e. in 'testing') because
> octave-forge on Debian is built with just about all available external
> libraries --- which results in a lot of external dependencies which
> currently hold up the migration of octave-forge into testing.
>
> So the upshot that you want to get the package from unstable. If you have
> unstable entries in /etc/apt/sources.list, this would do it:
>
> $ apt-get -t unstable octave-forge
>
> Dirk
> octave + octave-forge maintainer
>
> > On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 07:48 am, Christoph Dalitz wrote:
> > > Hallo,
> > >
> > > just installed the Debian package "octave-forge" (Version:
> > > 2003.06.02-8) because of the image processing functions. Although it
> > > has been installed with "apt-get install octave-forge", no functions
> > > from this package are available in octave.
> > >
> > > Does someone now what additional steps are necessary to use this
> > > package?
> > >
> > > Moreover the Debain package seems to lack the documentation. Is the
> > > HTML-doc available from a seperate site?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Christoph
> > >
> > >
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