Re: Latest Octave for Ubuntu?

[Jeffrey Layton]

Salva,

Yep, 18.04 is a bit old but some tools I use require it (no CentOS or RHEL). Maybe when they start supporting 20.04, I can upgrade. In the meantime, I would have to build flatpack for 18.04 (it's not in the standard repos). Not excited about that.

In the meantime, it looks like I need to build the important bits from scratch.

I appreciate the time and input you and everyone put in.

Thanks!

Jeff

On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 4:26 PM Salva Ardid <address@hidden> wrote:

[Not again!!!]

Please see replies below:

> Honestly, I don't want to build everything from source. I've done it before
> and I'd rather avoid it.

I understand, building is flexible, but it's also complex (many options) and messy with the host system

> Second - I don't want to use another package manager with Ubuntu. I like
> using one so I don't screw up anything. Is it possible to convert from
> flatpack to debian .pkg?

One of the main points of flatpak is not to mess up with the host system. And it's easy to use once you install flatpak (e.g., from the launchap repo if you want to be up-to-date)

Note that for Octave devs is much more efficient to maintain one general package than many for different distros and have to control the conflicts of libraries of their distro versions

There is no way to convert from flatpak to deb

> Since it's only available for flatpack, I'm guessing there are package
> managers for the various distros? So there isn't one for CentOS or Ubuntu
> or Debian?

Some distros may include Octave in their official repos, but for instance Ubuntu 18.04 was released on 04/2018 so it has the latest Octave version of that moment

I totally suggest the flatpak way but feel free to use or not

> Thanks!
>
> Jeff