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

[Nicanor García]

Here is the result:

pkg install -verbose io-2.4.2.tar.gz
mkdir (/tmp/oct-hyvRAL)
untar (io-2.4.2.tar.gz, /tmp/oct-hyvRAL)
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

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 5:07 PM, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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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