[Pkg-octave-devel] Re: problems with octaviz on amiga1200.jt7336.tky.hut.fi

[Stephen R Marenka]

On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 04:25:39PM +0200, Thomas Weber wrote:

> Ehm, Octaviz needs octave2.1. That said, the latest version of octave2.9
> is 2.9.5-4, which has been built for m68k and is currently sitting in
> incoming.

(Cool that ICE has been fixed.) Sorry, color me clueless. 

> Anyway, can you send me the output of the 'ls' commands from my last
> message?

Looks like you spotted the problem.

| (test)smarenka at vivaldi:~$ /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --display octave-config
| 
| No alternatives for octave-config.

| (test)smarenka at vivaldi:~$ dpkg -l octave2.1
| Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
| |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
| ||/ Name           Version        Description
| +++-==============-==============-============================================
| ii  octave2.1      2.1.73-2       GNU Octave language for numerical computatio

| (test)smarenka at vivaldi:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/oct*
| lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   24 Apr 17 16:44 /usr/bin/octave -> /etc/alternatives/octave
| -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3.4K Apr 10 23:47 /usr/bin/octave-2.1.73
| lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   28 Apr 17 16:44 /usr/bin/octave-bug -> /etc/alternatives/octave-bug
| -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  13K Apr 10 23:21 /usr/bin/octave-bug-2.1.73
| lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   13 Apr 17 16:43 /usr/bin/octave2.1 -> octave-2.1.73

| (test)smarenka at vivaldi:~$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/oct*
| lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Apr 17 16:44 /etc/alternatives/octave -> /usr/bin/octave-2.1.73
| lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Apr 17 16:44 /etc/alternatives/octave-bug -> /usr/bin/octave-bug-2.1.73
| lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 Apr 17 16:44 /etc/alternatives/octave-bug.1.gz -> /usr/share/man/man1/octave-bug-2.1.73.1.gz
| lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Apr 17 16:44 /etc/alternatives/octave.1.gz -> /usr/share/man/man1/octave-2.1.73.1.gz

-- 
Stephen R. Marenka     If life's not fun, you're not doing it right!
<stephen at marenka.net>
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