Re: Installation error on Ubuntu 12.10 (x64) for Octave 3.6.2

[Mike Miller]

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 9:30 AM, cryingfist wrote:
> I'm having a very frustrating problem when installing octave: if I run "sudo
> apt-get install octave" I receive the following error.
> "dpkg: error processing octave (--configure): subprocess installed
> post-installation script returned error exit status 139.
> Errors were encountered when processing: octave
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)"

Hi, first off, as this is an error in the Ubuntu package installation,
you should probably report this bug to Ubuntu so it can be handled and
addressed there.

The two main causes of problems like this in Ubuntu systems are:

1) Having another copy of Octave in the executable PATH, for example
installing the octave package after building or attempting to build
Octave from source. What does "which octave" at the console display?

2) Non-Ubuntu packages installed from third-party PPAs, especially
dependency libraries of Octave or Oracle Java (if also installing the
octave-java package).

Do either of these apply to you?

What does "dpkg -l \*octave\*" list?

-- 
mike