[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#309762: octave: ocate needs lapack3, but this is not a dependency

[Olivier Sessink]

Package: octave
Version: 2.1.69-1
Severity: normal


I got an error when starting octave:

olivier@olidell:~$ octave
octave: error while loading shared libraries: liblapack.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
olivier@olidell:~$ ldd /usr/bin/octave
                liboctinterp.so => /usr/lib/octave-2.1.69/liboctinterp.so (0xb77f9000)
        liboctave.so => /usr/lib/octave-2.1.69/liboctave.so (0xb71d0000)
        libcruft.so => /usr/lib/octave-2.1.69/libcruft.so (0xb717a000)
        liblapack.so.3 => not found
        libblas.so.3 => not found
        libfftw3.so.3 => /usr/lib/libfftw3.so.3 (0xb70ad000)
        libreadline.so.5 => /lib/libreadline.so.5 (0xb7080000)
        libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0xb7040000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/libdl.so.2 (0x41185000)
        libhdf5-1.6.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libhdf5-1.6.2.so.0 (0xb6f36000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x41c5b000)
        libg2c.so.0 => /usr/lib/libg2c.so.0 (0xb6f18000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x41150000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x41544000)
        libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x4140e000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x41019000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x41000000)
        liblapack.so.3 => not found
        libblas.so.3 => not found
        liblapack.so.3 => not found
        libblas.so.3 => not found
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x41174000)

the error was fixed after installing package lapack3

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages octave depends on:
ii  octave2.1                     2.1.69-1   GNU Octave language for numerical 

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