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Re: Octave 3.8.0 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
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Julien Bect |
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Re: Octave 3.8.0 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS |
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Wed, 05 Feb 2014 09:37:57 +0100 |
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On 05/02/2014 06:01, mpender wrote:
Is there any plan to release Octave 3.8.0 for Ubuntu 12.04
(long-term-support version) any time soon? I don't want to just assume
that it will be released eventually, since the intermediate versions
have not been released for Ubuntu 12.04.
Hello Mike,
If I understand correctly (everyone else : please correct me if I'm
wrong), the octave package that you see in the Ubuntu package repository
comes directly from the Debian package repository.
For instance, with Ubuntu 12.04 (LTS) you get octave 3.2.4, probably
because 12.04LTS has been based on Debian "squeeze", which was the
testing Debian release at that time (?).
If you upgrade to the latest Ubuntu release (13.10), you will get octave
3.6.4, which is the version currently available in Debian "jessie" (the
current testing release for Debian).
So, the first question you should ask yourself is : when will Octave
3.8.0 be available in the Debian repositories ? As you can see here :
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=octave
it is currently available in the experimental distribution. I'm not
familiar enough with the Debian packaging process to tell you when you
can expect to see Octave 3.8.0 in Debian unstable or testing, you should
perhaps contact the Debian Octave group
(https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianOctaveGroup) for this kind of question.
Now, concerning your original question : I don't think that Ubuntu 12.04
LTS will ever include Octave 3.8.0, since the point of an "LTS" release
is to be achieve stability over time. Ubuntu 12.04LTS seems to be frozen
on the package releases from Debian "squeeze", i.e., Octave branch 3.2.x
(otherwise, it would already include Octave 3.6.2, which is now in
Debian "wheezy" (testing).
Hope that helps (and sorry for the rather verbose answer...),
Julien.
- Octave 3.8.0 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, mpender, 2014/02/05
- Re: Octave 3.8.0 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Alasdair McAndrew, 2014/02/05
- Re: Octave 3.8.0 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Markus Bergholz, 2014/02/05
- Re: Octave 3.8.0 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, mpender, 2014/02/05
- Re: Octave 3.8.0 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, mpender, 2014/02/16
- Re: Octave 3.8.0 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Kai Torben Ohlhus, 2014/02/17
- Re: Octave 3.8.0 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, mpender, 2014/02/17
- Re: Octave 3.8.0 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Thomas D. Dean, 2014/02/17
Re: Octave 3.8.0 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS,
Julien Bect <=