I'll report it upstream and then set this thread to "solved", thx.
]]>It also works for me, so perhaps this is related to configuration. So keep your Octave configuration to facilitate debugging by the GNU team.
]]>Does the GUI version work for you?
]]>I just tried installing octave, but it won't start:
host ~ # pacman -Syu
host ~ # pacman -Qs octave
host ~ # pacman -S octave
[installing]
user@host ~ $ octave
GNU Octave, version 4.4.1
Copyright (C) 2018 John W. Eaton and others.
This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. For details, type 'warranty'.
Octave was configured for "x86_64-pc-linux-gnu".
Additional information about Octave is available at https://www.octave.org.
Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For more information, visit https://www.octave.org/get-involved.html
Read https://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to submit bug reports.
For information about changes from previous versions, type 'news'.
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::out_of_range'
what(): basic_string::substr: __pos (which is 17) > this->size() (which is 16)
fatal: caught signal Aborted -- stopping myself...
Aborted (core dumped)
user@host ~ $
Does this justify a bug report (https://bugs.archlinux.org/?project=5&string=octave or upstream?) or does octave work for you guys and it's just my stupidity?
"Rootsquash"
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