Re: Problem installing packages

[Sergei Steshenko]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>
> To: ramack <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 6:11 PM
> Subject: Re: Problem installing packages
[snip]
> 
> In fact, I wish we could stop telling people to use pkg install,
> because it's a very brittle way of getting packages to people.
> 
> HTH,
> - Jordi G. H.


Oh, really ? What a long way to say "buggy".

And what about people who build Octave and packages from source ?
And what about GPL requiring both the source and build instructions from that 
source to be available ?
AFAIR, GPL explicitly forbids obscuring ways of building from source.

...

Was the OP trying to install packages globally ?

I judge from '/usr/local' in:

"
couldn't create installation directory
/usr/share/octave/packages/combinatorics-1.0.9 : Permission denied
error: called from `pkg>copy_files' in file
/usr/share/octave/3.6.1/m/pkg/pkg.m near line 1569, column 7
error: called from:
error:   /usr/share/octave/3.6.1/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 876, column 5
error:   /usr/share/octave/3.6.1/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 383, column 9
".

Regards,
  Sergei.