[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#536839: octave3.0: does not locally install a package

[Luca Favatella]

Package: octave3.0
Version: 1:3.0.5-6
Severity: normal


How to reproduce this bug

Install octave-communications (dependency of the ga package)
$ aptitude install octave-communications

Download ga.tar.gz from
http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/octave/trunk/octave-forge/main/ga.tar.gz?view=tar

Try to locally install ga (in a subdirectory of your home)
$ echo "pkg install ga.tar.gz" | octave -q


I get:
error: couldn't create installation directory /usr/share/octave/packages/3.0/ga-0.9.7 : Permission denied
error: called from `pkg:copy_files' in file /usr/share/octave/3.0.5/m/pkg/pkg.mnear line 1425, column 7

It is strange, because if I remember well octave should create ./ga-0.9.7 directory (i.e. not in /usr/...).


Cheers,
Luca Favatella


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages octave3.0 depends on:
ii  libblas3gf [libblas.so 1.2-2             Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii  libc6                  2.9-12            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcolamd-3.2.0        1:3.2.0-4         column approximate minimum degree 
ii  libcurl3-gnutls        7.19.5-1          Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libfftw3-3             3.1.2-3.1         library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  libgcc1                1:4.4.0-5         GCC support library
ii  libgfortran3           4.4.0-5           Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
ii  libglpk0               4.38-1            linear programming kit with intege
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.6.6-0 1.6.6-4           Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  liblapack3gf [liblapac 3.2.1-1           library of linear algebra routines
ii  libncurses5            5.7+20090523-1    shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpcre3               7.8-2+b1          Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libqhull5              2009.1-1          calculate convex hulls and related
ii  libreadline5           5.2-4             GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libstdc++6             4.4.0-5           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libsuitesparse-3.2.0   1:3.2.0-4         collection of libraries for comput
ii  octave3.0-common       1:3.0.5-6         architecture-independent files for
ii  texinfo                4.13a.dfsg.1-4    Documentation system for on-line i
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages octave3.0 recommends:
ii  gnuplot                       4.2.5-2    A command-line driven interactive 
pn  libatlas3gf-base              <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages octave3.0 suggests:
ii  octave3.0-doc                 1:3.0.5-6  PDF documentation on the GNU Octav
ii  octave3.0-emacsen             1:3.0.5-6  Emacs support for the GNU Octave l
pn  octave3.0-headers             <none>     (no description available)
pn  octave3.0-htmldoc             <none>     (no description available)
ii  octave3.0-info                1:3.0.5-6  GNU Info documentation on the GNU 

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