Re: octave-sundials for ubuntu 16.04

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El dilluns, 19 de març de 2018, a les 9:31:04 EDT, Sergei Steshenko va escriure:
  
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  From: Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden>
  To: "address@hidden" <address@hidden> 
  Sent: Monday, March 19, 2018 8:20 AM
  Subject: octave-sundials for ubuntu 16.04
  
  I tried to install octave-sundials on 16.04
    
  LC_ALL=C sudo apt install octave-sundials
  
  Reading package lists... Done
  
  Building dependency tree       
  
  Reading state information... Done
  
  Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
  
  requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
  
  distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
  
  or been moved out of Incoming.
  
  The following information may help to resolve the situation:
  
  
  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  
   octave-sundials : Depends: octave but it is not going to be installed
  
  E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
  
  
  Perhaps my setting was wrong.
  
  
  Please give me a clue to kick out the error.
  
  
  
  Tatsuro
  
  
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  "Perhaps my setting was wrong" - yet again, Octave packaging system is 
broken. It is broken because it wasn't properly spec'ed in the first place.
  
  
  And this can clearly be seen from the copy-pasted by you messages:
  
  "Building dependency tree" <-> "Some packages could not be installed" - where 
is the EXACT list of packages that could not be installed in the light of 
"Building dependency tree" ?
  
  You and others can provide whatever particular solutions to concrete package 
problems, but Octave packaging system is broken. And no squandering of 
resources on Octave (qt) GUI can hide this fact.
  
  The
  
  "
  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  
  octave-sundials : Depends: octave but it is not going to be installed
  
  "
  
  is a ridiculous error message - obviously any package for Octave depends on 
it.
  
  --Sergei.

Sergei,

I don't know about the internals of Octave packaging, but I'm 100% sure that 
this doesn't have to do anything with it. This is an error from Debian (Ubuntu) 
packaging, purely and only.

Best,

....
a.