Re: Problem installing the io and statistics packages on Octave 4.0.3 in Debian Jessie

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> Hello,
> 
> I installed Octave 4.03 from the Jessie Backports repository with no 
> problems, but now I'm having problems adding the statistics package.
> 
> I tried with the Debian package manager, but it fails to tell that I have 
> Octave 4.0.3 installed:
> 
> octave-io : Depends: octave (>= 3.8.2) but it is not going to be installed
> octave-statistics : Depends: octave (>= 3.6.4) but it is not going to be 
> installed
> 
> I also tried installing the packages manually from Octave using the pkg 
> command and the .tar.gz downloaded from the forge, but I get this error when 
> trying to install the io package:
> 
> pkg install io-2.4.2.tar.gz
> sh: 1: make: not found
> 
> pkg: error running `make' for the io package.
> error: called from 'configure_make' in file 
> /usr/share/octave/4.0.3/m/pkg/private/configure_make.m near line 96, column 9
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thank you very much.
> 
> Nicanor García O.

Try the below and report messages. 

pkg install -verbose io-2.4.2.tar.gz


For verbose option, see  
help pkg   

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