Regardless of Snap, parallel package is broken.
On 7.3 it has "undefined symbol: num_processors" error

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62349

(I assume the fix did not make it to the released package yet).

On 8.1.1 it just would not compile. So we need a new release.

Dmitri.
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Installing the parallel toolbox via

pkg install -forge parallel

fails with

...........
g++ -pthread -Wall -o octave-pserver octave-pserver.cc
true # without any recipe, make seemingly doesn't always consider the target to be really re-made after this rule was triggered
gcc -c gnulib-wrappers.c -Igl -g -O2 -fPIC
install -D octave-pserver ../bin/octave-pserver
Makefile:223: recipe for target 'octave-pserver' failed
rm fsave.o fload.o __exit__.o
make: Leaving directory '/tmp/oct-c7rvf5/parallel-4.0.1/src'

error: pkg: error running 'make' for the parallel package
error: called from
    configure_make at line 117 column 9
    install at line 202 column 7
    pkg at line 603 column 9

My system:

GNU Octave, version 7.1.0 Copyright
Octave was configured for "x86_64-pc-linux-gnu".
Note this is snap version installed via

snap install octave

Operating System: Kubuntu 22.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.7
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.92.0
Qt Version: 5.15.3
Kernel Version: 5.15.0-67-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5700G with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 27.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: RENOIR