[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51632] MS Windows portable (i.e. zip) version cannot find pre-installed packages, needs pkg rebuild, not mentioned at first run

[Tasos Papastylianou]

Follow-up Comment #24, bug #51632 (project octave):

Why would relative vs absolute paths even be an issue here? 
All that would need to be done is to modify octaverc in the prepackaged
windows zip version specifically such that it runs a simple pkg rebuild
command at first launch (as per the one-liner below).
Are we getting sidetracked here, or is there a legitimate reason this would
not be the preferred approach? 

Also, regardless, it may still be worth treating this issue partly as a
documentation issue, and simply make it more visible to a user at first
launch; while any programmatic fix might address the `rebuild` issue, the user
might still want to be informed that it may be worth to `update` their pkg
database too, as per the wiki. And you certainly wouldn't want to
automatically trigger an update programmatically at first launch.


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