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Re: Installation of two octave versions & octcdf
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Przemek Klosowski |
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Re: Installation of two octave versions & octcdf |
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Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:22:26 -0400 |
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On 03/30/2010 08:28 AM, Sergei Steshenko wrote:
I believe that packages should be by default installed into a directory
containing 'octave' version - like 'octave' itself.
Most people run Octave on a package-based system and Octave is installed
in a system directory (e.g. /usr/share/octave).
It is a good practice to run without admin privileges, so
installing packages in your scheme would require a sudo-like
scheme of privilege elevation. It would also not work for
people using shared machines administered by someone else.
Luckily, package root directory is user-modifiable by the 'pkg prefix'
command that defaults to ~/octave