Re: Installing Octave 5.x on Ubuntu 18.04 using flatpack

[Pavel Hofman]

Dne 30. 03. 20 v 21:33 John Frain napsal(a):
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> On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 at 17:27, Pavel Hofman <address@hidden
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>     Dne 30. 03. 20 v 17:52 John Frain napsal(a):
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>     > On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 at 13:33, Jeffrey Layton <address@hidden
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>     >     Good morning,
>     >
>     >     Has anyone tried the instructions for using flatpack to install
>     >     Ocatve 5.x on Ubuntu?
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>     >   
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> https://askubuntu.com/questions/1135409/how-to-install-octave-5-on-ubuntu-18-04
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>     >     I'm curious what experience people have had.
>     >
>     >     TIA!
>     >     Jeff
>     >
>     > I have installed flatpak Octave 5.2 on two Mint 19.3 PCs following the
>     > instructions on flathub ( https://flathub.org/apps ).  As Mint 19.3 is
>     > based on  Ubuntu 18.4 you should not have any problems.  I think that
>     > the flatpak infrastructure is already installed in the Mint
>     > distribution.  https://itsfoss.com/flatpak-guide/  explains how to
>     check
>     > if it is installed in your distribution and is it is not how to
>     install
>     > it.  It also gives details of the general use of flatpak.
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>     I tried to compile packages not distributed in the flac, and logically
>     octave did not see development headers of the libraries required. The
>     flatpack distribution falls short due to this IMO important issue.
> 
>     Pavel.
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> I have definitely installed packages using
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> pkg install -forge package_name 
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> and I presumed that these came from octave forge.  Are you telling me
> that such files come from the flatpak distribution?  I have also used
> flatpak update. if I run pkg list now I get
> 

I think the problem was with package database as it requires postgresql
headers to compile.

Best regards,

Pavel.