Re: Installing Octave 5.x on Ubuntu 18.04 using flatpack

[Pavel Hofman]

Dne 30. 03. 20 v 17:52 John Frain napsal(a):
> 
> On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 at 13:33, Jeffrey Layton <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> 
>     Good morning,
> 
>     Has anyone tried the instructions for using flatpack to install
>     Ocatve 5.x on Ubuntu?
> 
>     
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/1135409/how-to-install-octave-5-on-ubuntu-18-04
> 
>     I'm curious what experience people have had.
> 
>     TIA!
>     Jeff
> 
> I have installed flatpak Octave 5.2 on two Mint 19.3 PCs following the
> instructions on flathub ( https://flathub.org/apps ).  As Mint 19.3 is
> based on  Ubuntu 18.4 you should not have any problems.  I think that
> the flatpak infrastructure is already installed in the Mint
> distribution.  https://itsfoss.com/flatpak-guide/  explains how to check
> if it is installed in your distribution and is it is not how to install
> it.  It also gives details of the general use of flatpak. 

I tried to compile packages not distributed in the flac, and logically
octave did not see development headers of the libraries required. The
flatpack distribution falls short due to this IMO important issue.

Pavel.