[Pkg-octave-devel] Plotting in octave

Rafael Laboissiere rafael at debian.org
Sat Jul 1 09:21:20 UTC 2006


* Jan Vermeulen <extremist at tuks.co.za> [2006-07-01 10:45]:

> I tried this and this is what I got (I am updating against the unstable 
> Debian mirror, so I don't know if this problem exists in a plain Sarge 
> version of Debian):
> 
> ---snip---
> GNU Octave, version 2.1.73 (i486-pc-linux-gnu).
> Copyright (C) 2006 John W. Eaton.
> This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
> There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTIBILITY or
> FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type `warranty'.
> 
> Additional information about Octave is available at http://www.octave.org.
> 
> Please contribute if you find this software useful.
> For more information, visit http://www.octave.org/help-wanted.html
> 
> Report bugs to <bug at octave.org> (but first, please read
> http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to write a helpful report).
> 
> octave:1> use_plplot
> This function is deprecated.  Use toggle_plplot_use instead.
> octave:2> toggle_plplot_use
> error: This version of octave-plplot only works with Octave 2.1

This problem has been already reported:

    http://bugs.debian.org/368753
    
and was fixed in version 5.6.1-1:

    http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2006/06/msg02465.html

If you are using sid, upgrading the package should fix the problem.

-- 
Rafael



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