[arch-general] problem installing octave

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 09:52:49PM +0100, Karol Blazewicz wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org> wrote:
>> > I tried to install octave (after a pacman -Sy).
>>
>> Run 'pacman -Syu' and try again.
>
> I've no intention to do a full system upgrade ATM, nor should
> it be necessary. The problem is not that the missing lib is
> out of date but that pacman apparently can't get it.

You updated just the package database not the packages themselves, so
how on earth was pacman supposed to update that lib?

Why can't you fully update your system?