[arch-general] problem installing octave

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:22:51PM +0100, Karol Blazewicz wrote:
>> 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 out of date but that pacman apparently can't get it.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?
>
> Because it is apparently a dependency of octave. And pacman tried to
> install it, but failed due to the 'no version information'.

'pacman -S foo' doesn't work that way.


Have you tried using the previous version of octave (octave 3.4.3-2)?
http://arm.konnichi.com/search/index.php?a=32&q=octave&core=1&extra=1&community=1