On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:11:36AM -0400, Jordi Gutiérrez
Hermoso wrote:
> On 24 May 2012 10:08, ramack <
address@hidden>
wrote:
> > I am having the same issue installing new packages
from the GUI.
>
> There is no GUI yet. If you mean QtOctave, it's
abandoned and
> scheduled to be deleted from the repositories.
>
> > My OS is Debian Testing i386
>
> You should not be using pkg install to install OF
packages in Debian.
> They are already packaged for Debian with apt. So e.g.
instead of
> doing "pkg install signal" from Octave, you should do
"aptitude
> install octave-signal" from bash.
>
> In fact, I wish we could stop telling people to use pkg
install,
> because it's a very brittle way of getting packages to
people.
Jordi,
advocating the use of packaged (Debian) Octave Forge
packages is one
thing, but explicitely discouraging 'pkg install' is
another. In some
cases the latter could actually mean 'please stick with a
buggy
package or a package lacking important features'. Octave
Forge
packages are generally in a quite flowing state, there is no
'stable
branch', and I doubt that Debians scheme to stick with some
stable
version is thouroughly applicable here, i.e. the chance of
getting a
stable package is probably not much higher (I'd guess) with
a
Debian-stable pre-packaged version.
And I don't think using the 'pkg install' way is that
difficult. While
pre-packaging may help many people, persons with serious
interest in
some packages functionality should not be discouraged to use
the
native Octave way.
Please don't take this as an insult or as disrespect of
Debians
packaging work. But I'm a bit disquiet since I think things
are going
to far here.
Olaf
> HTH,
> - Jordi G. H.
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