[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#514802: octave-symbolic: (un)install accesses user .octave_hist

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Marc Glisse <marc.glisse at loria.fr> [2009-02-11 00:16]:

> Package: octave-symbolic
> Version: 1.0.6-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> Whenever I install or uninstall octave-symbolic (so I have this twice for
> any upgrade), I get the message:
> 
> error: Permission denied
> 
> Looking at the output of strace -f, I notice that this happens because
> something tries to access my .octave_hist. I am running the command as:
> sudo apt-get ...
> so HOME still points to my user directory, which is NFS mounted (so no
> access for root).
> 
> If the install process needs to run octave, I guess it should specify the
> configuration files to use.

Thomas: is this the same as Bug#513576?


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Rafael