[arch-general] problem installing octave

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org> wrote:
> 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...

pacman checks dependencies, soemtimes they are versioned but in most
cases they're not.
If the dependencies are there (you do have curl installed), pacman
thinks things are fine.