Re: octave-dev package for Ubuntu 18.04

[Christian Himpe]

Dear Cameron,

may be this shell script can be of help packaging a custom octave-cli:

https://gist.github.com/gramian/cd245d7dea271bcaae9967c93327429a

Best

Christian


On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 15:48:25 +0900
Kai Torben Ohlhus <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 12/4/19 6:20 AM, Cameron Taggart wrote:
> > I packaged octave-cli and other dev files for the Docker image for
> > Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic into a deb. Have a look at:
> > 
> > https://github.com/ctaggart/octave-deb
> > https://github.com/ctaggart/octave-deb/releases/tag/5.1.0-1
> > 
> > It would be great if the dependency list could be reduced. It
> > currently pulls in 375 MB of dependencies.  
> 
> 
> Please describe in more detail what you are trying to do.  The
> "standard" Octave packages from the official Ubuntu repository are
> targeted for Desktop users and octave-cli to offer all possible
> features of Octave.  Thus it can be expected to be a larger image.
> 
> If you don't need certain Octave features, you need to compile Octave
> yourself [1].  Then perhaps you can reduce the dependencies needed for
> your custom build.  But anyway, more information about your intended
> use is required to give useful information.
> 
> Best,
> Kai
> 
> 
> [1]: https://wiki.octave.org/Building
> 



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