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bug #34010: octave-symbolic installed but not working

Submitter:  Rod <brasileiro>
Submitted:  Sat 13 Aug 2011 08:56:29 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Configuration and Build System Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Installation Failure
Status:  Octave Forge Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Brasileiro Open/Closed:  * Closed
Release:  * dev Operating System:  * GNU/Linux
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Sat 27 Aug 2011 08:22:10 AM UTC, comment #3: 

This has been already moved to the OF bug tracker.

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3391328&group_id=2888&atid=102888

c.

Carlo de Falco <cdf>
Group Member
Fri 26 Aug 2011 04:57:33 PM UTC, comment #2: 

This looks like a problem with an Octave Forge package, not a bug
in Octave.  The correct place to report this problem is the
Octave Forge mailing list, octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net.

A copy of this update to the bug report is being sent to that
list so that they are aware of it.  Please follow up there.

Rik <rik5>
Group administrator
Sun 14 Aug 2011 01:03:27 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Sigh...

The symbolic package is unmaintained, and even if it were maintained, it's not a core Octave package, supposedly maintained by a different team than the present one to which you are reporting the bug.

Nobody in Ubuntu, as far as I know, is watching the Octave bug reports, although I take a peek every few months to see what's up. So the Ubuntu bug reports about Octave are mostly a black hole.

So I don't have much consolation for you. Even when the symbolic package does work (the Debian packages do work; no idea why the Ubuntu packages don't work), I find it pretty useless. Octave isn't meant for symbolic computation, and if you really do need it, I think you're better off using GiNaC directly which the package wraps.

I think you're on your own. I'm trying to fix at least one of these problems, namely, that you are reporting the bug to theh "wrong" people (Octave-Forge packages supposedly have their own mailing list and bug reports separate from core Octave).

Jordi GutiƩrrez Hermoso <jordigh>
Group Member
Sat 13 Aug 2011 08:56:29 PM UTC, original submission:  

Hi


  I'm actually reinforcing a problem of installation of the symbolic package in octave (ubuntu bug #757525).

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/octave-symbolic/+bug/757525

  The point is there is no way to the symbolic package work in ubuntu 11.04 after the installation, either using the installation manager or the command inside octave

 pkg install octave-symbolic

 Right now I'm using ubuntu 9.2 in a virutal box (windows host) to use the symbolic package.


A solution or work around would be very welcomed

Thanks

Rod <brasileiro>

 

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