Re: Has Package Directory Moved?

[Thomas D. Dean]

On 1/27/22 8:17 PM, Andrew Janke wrote:
> 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
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 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
I fixed it via .octaverc

Thanks