Fwd: Please release RC1 to octave/unstable PPA

[Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen]

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From: Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen <address@hidden>
Date: Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: Please release RC1 to octave/unstable PPA
To: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>


is it really necessry with gnuplot-nox? If I try to install that then
gnuplot-x11 wants to deinstall!

Also, the list says libsuitesparse-dev.  For me that does not work
under configuration, as it finally says
umfpack couldnt be found. But, if I replace that with
libsuitesparse-metis-dev, configure works!

Kjetil

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 01:06 -0800, rasmusbergpalm wrote:
>> Unfortunately I use Octave as part of a CI build and cannot build
>> octave itself, but I can use a version from the PPA.
>
> Of course you can build Octave yourself. Building Octave on Ubuntu is
> one of the easiest systems to build it on. Please attempt it.
>
> You will need the following packages to compile Octave. Just apt-get
> install them all:
>
>     gfortran debhelper automake dh-autoreconf texinfo
>     texlive-latex-base texlive-generic-recommended epstool transfig
>     pstoedit libreadline-dev libncurses5-dev gperf libhdf5-serial-dev
>     libblas-dev liblapack-dev gnuplot-nox libfftw3-dev texi2html less
>     libpcre3-dev flex libglpk-dev libsuitesparse-dev gawk ghostscript
>     libcurl4-gnutls-dev libqhull-dev desktop-file-utils libfltk1.3-dev
>     libgl2ps-dev libgraphicsmagick++1-dev libftgl-dev
>     libfontconfig1-dev libqrupdate-dev libarpack2-dev dh-exec
>     libqt4-dev libqscintilla2-dev llvm-3.0-dev default-jdk dpkg-dev
>
> Then it should be the usual
>
>     ./configure --prefix=/opt/octave && make && sudo make install
>
> or whatever other --prefix you want to install Octave to.
>
>> Also, by submitting it to the PPA you'll know whether it builds on
>> the most common ubuntu distros which i guess is pretty interesting..
>
> We know it builds. We want to see our users attempt to build it and
> see what problems they may have. Perhaps you've installed conflicting
> packages that the Ubuntu autobuilders don't have, or perhaps you have
> user-specific configurations that the autobuilders also don't have.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> - Jordi G. H.
>
>
>
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