Re: cannot install package parallel

[Mike Miller]

On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 08:37:51 +0100, Olaf Till wrote:
> Which versions are these? According to
> 
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/math/octave-parallel
> 
> Ubuntu seems to have version 2.0.5. I'd not recommend using this,
> because, apart from lacking something new:
> 
> - it does not contain the functions for local parallel execution,
> 
> - networking is not (attempted to be) cryptographically secured,
> 
> - it contains, among others, a now deprecated system of functions,
> 
> - it contains some functions (whose names had to be changed) under
>   their old names.

JFTR, precise is ancient, the current Ubuntu has 3.0.0 and the current
LTS release has version 2.2.0. But point taken, users wanting the latest
and greatest might want to install with -forge.

-- 
mike