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redbit

Member

Registered: 2007-11-13

Posts: 57

Octave in extra quite old

Hello,

just tried some octave scripts. But they don't run.

Maybe because Octave in extra is quite old: version 2.1.73. Latest stable version according to octave website is 3.0.1. Will it get updated soon?

Greets!

Aaron

Member

From: PA, USA

Registered: 2007-12-19

Posts: 108

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Re: Octave in extra quite old

The package has already been flagged as out of date.
http://archlinux.org/packages/3824/

If you need an update sooner, use ABS to compile the new version and install it via pacman.

redbit

Member

Registered: 2007-11-13

Posts: 57

Re: Octave in extra quite old

ok, thanks a lot!

pressh

Developer/TU

From: Netherlands

Registered: 2005-08-14

Posts: 1,717

Re: Octave in extra quite old

IIRC octave3 is not backwards compatible with octave2, not sure if that is the reason octave is not yet updated though.

there is a package called octave3 in AUR btw which you can use.

Stalafin

Member

From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2007-10-26

Posts: 608

Re: Octave in extra quite old

It's kinda weird - now there is octave and octrave3 in the repository.

Any reasons for this decision?

Stefan Husmann

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-07

Posts: 955

Re: Octave in extra quite old

octave3 was put to community by my request. It is not compatible to octave2, so it makes sense to have both. There also is qt3 and qt, sqlite and sqlite3...

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: Octave in extra quite old

Just read last message from pressh again, it is not weird based on that.
Simply the octave3 package which was on AUR was moved to community, as it happens frequently for many packages.
Also see this :
http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur- … 07922.html

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