[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#699300: Bug#699300: Octave crashes with Matrix multiply

[Rafael Laboissiere]

Control: tags -1 wontfix

* whludescher <whludescher at verizon.net> [2013-01-29 19:51]:
>
> Package:  Octave3.2 
> Version:   3.2.4-8
>
> I used the debian synaptic package manager to install octave. Unfortunately, 
> it crashes whenever I invoke even a simple matrix multiply. Something is 
> clearly missing.
>
> I'm running debian version 6.0.6, Gnu Desktop version 2.30.2  and linux 
> kernel 2.6.32-5-686.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am sorry to inform you that this bug will not be fixed (and I am hereby 
tagging this bug report accordingly).  The Debian Octave Group decided to 
drop the maintenance of the octave3.2 package.  The current upstream 
version of Octave is 3.6.2, which corresponds to the package called 
octave (N.B.: no version in the name) in the testing distribution.

You seem to be using the squeeze distribution.  I would suggest you to 
install the backported version of the package, which can be found here:

http://packages.debian.org/squeeze-backports/octave

Otherwise, you could upgrade your system to the wheezy distribution, 
which will become the stable distribution soon.

Best regards,

Rafael