[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#846295: octave: Octave can't find correct library files on installation

[Gary Roach]

Package: octave
Version: 4.0.3-2+b1
Severity: grave
Tags: upstream
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

I attempted to install the Octave package on my Debian Stretch system using
both Aptitude and apt-get. Both methods resulted in the same error:

Setting up octave (4.0.3-2+b1) ...
/usr/local/libexec/octave/4.0.0/exec/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/octave-gui: 
error
while loading shared libraries: libgl2ps.so.0: cannot open shared object 
file:
No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing package octave (--configure):

The .deb file seems to be looking for the wrong version of the lib file. The
newer version is libgl2ps.so.1

I set up a soft link from the old version to the new, re-ran the install and
now get a new error that the installer can't find libcholmod.so.2.1.2.

Maybe the .deb file is completely out of date.

Gary Roach




-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
   APT prefers testing
   APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages octave depends on:
ii  libamd2                          1:4.5.3-2
ii  libarpack2                       3.4.0-1+b1
ii  libasound2                       1.1.2-1
ii  libatlas3-base [liblapack.so.3]  3.10.3-1
ii  libblas3 [libblas.so.3]          3.6.1-2
ii  libc6                            2.24-5
ii  libcamd2                         1:4.5.3-2
ii  libccolamd2                      1:4.5.3-2
ii  libcholmod3                      1:4.5.3-2
ii  libcolamd2                       1:4.5.3-2
ii  libcxsparse3                     1:4.5.3-2
ii  libfftw3-double3                 3.3.5-1
ii  libfftw3-single3                 3.3.5-1
ii  libfltk-gl1.3                    1.3.3-8+b1
ii  libfltk1.3                       1.3.3-8+b1
ii  libfontconfig1                   2.11.0-6.7
ii  libfreetype6                     2.6.3-3+b1
ii  libgcc1                          1:6.2.0-13
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]         12.0.4-2
ii  libglpk40                        4.60-2+b1
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]           9.0.0-2.1
ii  libgomp1                         6.2.0-13
ii  liblapack3 [liblapack.so.3]      3.6.1-2
ii  liboctave3v5                     4.0.3-2+b1
ii  libosmesa6                       12.0.4-2
ii  libportaudio2                    19+svn20140130-1.1
ii  libqhull7                        2015.2-1
ii  libqrupdate1                     1.1.2-2
ii  libqscintilla2-12v5              2.9.3+dfsg-4
ii  libqt4-network                   4:4.8.7+dfsg-11
ii  libqt4-opengl                    4:4.8.7+dfsg-11
ii  libqtcore4                       4:4.8.7+dfsg-11
ii  libqtgui4                        4:4.8.7+dfsg-11
ii  libsndfile1                      1.0.27-1
ii  libstdc++6                       6.2.0-13
ii  libumfpack5                      1:4.5.3-2
ii  libx11-6                         2:1.6.3-1
ii  octave-common                    4.0.3-2
ii  texinfo                          6.3.0.dfsg.1-1+b1

Versions of packages octave recommends:
ii  default-jre-headless  2:1.8-57
ii  gnuplot-x11           5.0.5+dfsg1-4
ii  libatlas3-base        3.10.3-1
ii  octave-info           4.0.3-2
ii  pstoedit              3.70-3+b1

Versions of packages octave suggests:
pn  octave-doc      <none>
pn  octave-htmldoc  <none>

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