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Re: 4.2.0-rc4 candidate available for testing
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Ben Abbott |
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Re: 4.2.0-rc4 candidate available for testing |
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Thu, 10 Nov 2016 07:06:15 -0500 |
> On Nov 9, 2016, at 8:42 PM, Mike Miller <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 17:32:47 -0800, Rik wrote:
>> On 11/09/2016 05:13 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>>> On Nov 9, 2016, at 6:39 PM, Rik <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 11/9/16
>>>>
>>>> The final release candidate for the 4.2.0 version of Octave has been
>>>> uploaded to ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/octave/.
>>>>
>>>> Please download, build, and then run 'make check' (Linux, Mac) or
>>>> '__run_test_suite__' (Windows) to see how the new version performs.
>>>>
>>>> I tested octave-4.2.0-rc4.tar.lz on Ubuntu 15.04 and it passed with zero
>>>> failures.
>>>>
>>>> I tested octave-4.2.0-rc4-w32-installer.exe on a Windows XP virtual machine
>>>> and it passed with zero failures as well.
>>>>
>>>> —Rik
>>> Rik / anyone,
>>>
>>> What is the program needed to decompress an lz-file?
>>>
>>> Ben
>>>
>>>
>> lzip. But try
>>
>> tar xf octave-4.2.0-rc4.tar.lz
>>
>> and just see if it works.
>
> That also requires the lzip (http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/) program be
> installed. But once it is, yes GNU tar does the right thing. Probably
> not macOS/BSD tar.
>
> I would have preferred we stayed with xz, but doesn't matter that much.
I was surprised that the Mac OS tar worked once lzip was installed.
Ben
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