Thank you Luca, this worked! Greg
2010/1/18 Luca Favatella <[email protected]>: > On 18/01/2010, Gregory Carter <[email protected]> wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I'm getting the following error when trying to install any package: >> >> -------------- >> octave:29> pkg install miscellaneous-1.0.9.tar.gz >> >> warning: implicit conversion from matrix to string >> >> octave:29>error: couldn't create installation directory >> /usr/share/octave/packa >> >> ges/3.0/miscellaneous-1.0.9 : Permission denied >> >> error: called from `pkg:copy_files' in file >> /usr/share/octave/3.0.5/m/pkg/pkg.m >> >> near line 1425, column 7 >> -------------- >> >> I'm using Octave 3.0.5 via qtOctave 0.8.1 on Ubuntu 9.10 32bit. I've >> installed the octave3.0-headers as suggested by Octave's FAQ, but this >> doesn't help... >> >> Could anyone suggest anything I could try to fix this? > > I think yours is the same issue as > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=536839 > > Cheers, > Luca Favatella > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
