[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#681064: Bug#681064: Bug#681064: octave: does not configure properly

[Sébastien Villemot]

Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at laboissiere.net> writes:

> The following is what I did.  First, I put this in /etc/apt/preferences:
>
> ##################################
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=testing
> Pin-Priority: 650
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=stable
> Pin-Priority: 550
> ##################################
>
> I then purged all Octave-related packages from my system and issued the
> commands:
>
>     aptitude update
>     aptitude install octave3.2
>     aptitude install octave
>     aptitude purge octave3.2
>     
> and everything went fine.

What do you get if you do the following? (which seems to correspond to
what the reporter did)

  aptitude install octave3.2
  aptitude remove octave3.2
  aptitude install octave
  aptitude purge octave3.2

(note that octave3.2 is first remove, then purged).

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