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From: | Orion Poplawski |
Subject: | Re: octave 4.4 for Fedora 28/29 |
Date: | Sat, 24 Nov 2018 22:15:17 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.3.0 |
On 11/23/18 11:13 AM, Colin Macdonald wrote:
On 2018-11-19 7:31 p.m., Orion Poplawski wrote:FYI -I'm trying out the new Modular / AppStream functionality of Fedora 28+ to try to provide octave 4.4 (currently 4.4.1) updates. I've just submitted the octave 4.4 module to the updates-testing-modular repo. I'd be grateful for those of you on Fedora to give it a try.Orion, TL;DR it works on F28. - - - - - - - - - -I've not poked at modules yet so this seemed a good time to try... I'll document below on F28 in case others were also unsure how to play with the New Shiny...# dnf install fedora-repos-modular # dnf module list There was no Octave, presumably b/c its in testing still, so I enabled /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-testing-modular.repo # dnf module listoctave 4.4 20181118231341- - - - - - - # dnf module install octave:4.4Last metadata expiration check: 0:04:19 ago on Fri 23 Nov 2018 10:01:28 AM PST.Error: No such profile: octave:4.4:20181118231341/default
The next version of the octave module will have a default profile that will install the main octave package. There could be other profiles as well if it makes sense to have them.
- - - - - - - So then I tried: # dnf module enable octave:4.4 'octave:4.4' is enabled # dnf install octave Dependencies resolved.========================================================================================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size =========================================================================================================================================Upgrading:octave x86_64 6:4.4.1-1.module_2492+8a359c74 updates-testing-modular 16 M octave-devel x86_64 6:4.4.1-1.module_2492+8a359c74 updates-testing-modular 549 k octave-doctest noarch 0.6.1-4.module_2492+8a359c74 updates-testing-modular 28 k- - - - - - - -Now my /usr/bin/octave is 4.4.1. No idea where my old 4.2 octave is because AFAICT it never uninstalled the old RPM. Probably I just don't understand modular yet.thanks, Colin
The modular system in Fedora does not allow for parallel installs of different versions. So you had a straight upgrade from 4.2 to 4.4. Thanks for spelling out the steps as well.
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