Re: Installation fails on Debian Squeeze

[LUK ShunTim]

Mike B. wrote:
>  Dear All,
> 
> As the title implies, I can't install Octave 3.2 on Debian Squeeze.
> Here's the output of apt-get install octave3.2:
> 
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 133 not upgraded.
> 2 not fully installed or removed.
> After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> Setting up octave3.2 (3.2.3-1) ...
> error: fclose: invalid stream number = -1
> error: called from:
> error:   /usr/share/octave/3.2.3/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 363, column 1
> error:   /usr/share/octave/3.2.3/m/startup/octaverc at line 25, column 1
> 
> dpkg: error processing octave3.2 (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of shogun-octave:
>  shogun-octave depends on octave3.2 (>= 3.2.3); however:
>   Package octave3.2 is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing shogun-octave (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Processing triggers for menu ...
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  octave3.2
>  shogun-octave
> E  :  Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> 
> Any ideas?.
> 
> Cheers and thanks,
> Mike.

Are you installing both shogun-octave and octave3.2 at the same time?

Can you try uninstall *both* of them and then install only octave3.2
first before shogun-octave?

Regards,
ST
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