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Re: can't installa Octave 4 on Debian jessie
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Oliver Heimlich |
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Re: can't installa Octave 4 on Debian jessie |
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Wed, 13 Apr 2016 20:47:52 +0200 |
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On 13.04.2016 19:45, Francesco Potortì wrote:
> This is a strange thing. I am used to Debian and usually I know how to
> deal with small problems, but this one baffles me.
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> I installed a fresh stable Debian (jessie) inside a Virtualbox. I added
> the jessie-backports repository. I updated the list of packages, but
> 4.0.0-5~bpo8+1 does not show up among the available packages
> (octave-3.8.2 is there).
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> Yet, I can see it in the Packages.gz of that repository. However, when
> doing an update on the command line, I see that from jessie-backports
> only "Packages/DiffIndex" files are downloaded, but no "Packages".
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> Could that be the reason? What is the source of the problem?
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> I am going to download the .deb files and install from those, but I
> would like a definitive solution. Anyone can help?
>
How did you try to install the backport? The following should do the trick.
# apt-get -t jessie-backports install octave
For details, read http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/
Oliver