Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso-2 wrote
What about Octave-Forge packages? Do you have any package with octave-
prefixed that is *not* from the PPA? "apt-show-versions | grep
octave", anything remaining?
Also, have you tried doing "sudo apt-get install --reinstall octave"?
Trying the above suggestions give
andrew@andrew-desktop:~$ apt-show-versions | grep octave
The program 'apt-show-versions' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install apt-show-versions
andrew@andrew-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install apt-show-versions
[sudo] password for andrew:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libunity6 libdee-1.0-1
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
libapt-pkg-perl
The following NEW packages will be installed:
apt-show-versions libapt-pkg-perl
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 32.9 kB/115 kB of archives.
After this operation, 435 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Get:1
http://ubuntu.task.gda.pl/ubuntu/ precise/universe apt-show-versions all 0.17 [32.9 kB]
Fetched 32.9 kB in 0s (230 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package libapt-pkg-perl.
(Reading database ... 292579 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libapt-pkg-perl (from .../libapt-pkg-perl_0.1.25build2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package apt-show-versions.
Unpacking apt-show-versions (from .../apt-show-versions_0.17_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up octave (3.6.1-1ubuntu1ppa1~precise1) ...
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
dpkg: error processing octave (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 139
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of liboctave-dev:
liboctave-dev depends on octave (= 3.6.1-1ubuntu1ppa1~precise1); however:
Package octave is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing liboctave-dev (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up libapt-pkg-perl (0.1.25build2) ...
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
Setting up apt-show-versions (0.17) ...
** initializing cache. This may take a while **
Errors were encountered while processing:
octave
liboctave-dev
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 20 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/gnome/help: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/omf: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML: 0 KiB
Total disk space freed by localepurge: 20 KiB
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
andrew@andrew-desktop:~$ apt-show-versions | grep octave
liboctave-dev/precise uptodate 3.6.1-1ubuntu1ppa1~precise1
liboctave1/precise uptodate 3.6.1-1ubuntu1ppa1~precise1
octave/precise uptodate 3.6.1-1ubuntu1ppa1~precise1
octave-common/precise uptodate 3.6.1-1ubuntu1ppa1~precise1
andrew@andrew-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall octave
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libunity6 libdee-1.0-1
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up octave (3.6.1-1ubuntu1ppa1~precise1) ...
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
dpkg: error processing octave (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 139
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of liboctave-dev:
liboctave-dev depends on octave (= 3.6.1-1ubuntu1ppa1~precise1); however:
Package octave is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing liboctave-dev (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
Errors were encountered while processing:
octave
liboctave-dev
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/gnome/help: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/omf: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML: 0 KiB
Total disk space freed by localepurge: 0 KiB
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
andrew@andrew-desktop:~$ octave
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
andrew@andrew-desktop:~$
so still no joy. Perhaps my original attempt to compile from source is the way to go for me. Any suggestions about how to overcome the gfortran and configure problem?
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