Re: BLAS library incompatible with Fortran 77 compiler settings

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 25 September 2012 14:21, babelproofreader <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso-2 wrote
>> Okay, looks like it's there. "apt-cache policy octave" says what? Does
>> "sudo apt-get install octave" work?
>
> "apt-cache policy octave" gives
>
> address@hidden:~$ apt-cache policy octave
> octave:
>   Installed: 3.6.1-1ubuntu1ppa1~precise1
>   Candidate: 3.6.1-1ubuntu1ppa1~precise1
>   Version table:
>  *** 3.6.1-1ubuntu1ppa1~precise1 0
>         500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/picaso/octave/ubuntu/ precise/main i386
> Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> address@hidden:~$
>
> "sudo apt-get install octave"  does not work, giving
[snip]
> Setting up octave (3.6.1-1ubuntu1ppa1~precise1) ...
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> dpkg: error processing octave (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status

Well, well, well... that's bad news. Looks like a packaging bug. Do
you still have any octave3.2 packages installed? For example,
octave3.2-common, is that installed? Remove it and install
octave-common instead.

- Jordi G. H.