[arch-general] problem installing octave

[Alexandre Ferrando]

On 16 February 2012 22:52, Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org> wrote:

> 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...

That's what you got wrong. pacman -S foo only installs deps, does NOT
update them if they are already in the system.