Re: Fwd: [Pkg-octave-devel] Popcon stats for the DOG packages

[Sébastien Villemot]

Philip Nienhuis <address@hidden> writes:

> On my Linux boxes (Mandriva), Octave can read/write .xls and .ods w/o any
> problems using io and java pkgs.
> For a little while I tried Ubuntu - worked OK there as well.

I can't tell for these distributions. But on Debian, xlsread currently
fails, even with the java package installed (which itself installs a
JRE, of course). I am going to investigate it, and report any problem if
it turns out that it is not Debian specific.

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Sébastien Villemot
Researcher in Economics & Debian Maintainer
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