[arch-general] problem installing octave

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:41:53PM +0100, Karol Blazewicz wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org> wrote:
>
> > 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.

Could you elaborate a bit on that ?  Isn't 'pacman -S foo' supposed
to either install (if not yet installed) or update any dependencies
of 'foo' ? That anyway is what apperently it has done for the last
three years I've been using it...

I can perfectly understand that this will trigger an avalanche of
updates on a system that is mostly out of date, and that the result
can't be guaranteed in such cases and a full system update is in order.

But that is not the case here. What happens is that one library fails
to install (also separately) as a result of 'no version information'.

Ciao,

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