I'm going to close this since it looks like most of Octave Forge is
packaged in Debian and Ubuntu. Also, the #octave IRC topic doesn't
recommend installing all of Octave Forge any more.
If you need a metapackage for octave-forge, please file a bug in
Debian's bug tracker as these packages are
I would agree that this is now essentially fixed in 8.10 since the
packages are available individually. However, creating a octave-forge
meta package wouldn't be a bad idea, since people moving over from
matlab expect certain libraries to just be there without having to
install anything else. This
Ubuntu 8.10 has most of the individual Octave-Forge main packages (as
octave-[name]), plus octave-ad, octave-nan, and octave-tsa from Octave-
Forge extra.
The missing ones from Octave-Forge main are ANN, benchmark, database,
nnet, special-matrix and video; ANN is a binding for a library itself
I would like to second this. Octave is pretty much useless without the
standard libraries provided in octave-forge. Everyone I know that uses
octave on Ubuntu have downgraded back to 2.1 because of this, which is a
shame considering that the 2.9/3.0 series is leaps and bounds better.
Is there an
** Changed in: octave3.0 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Wishlist
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/212617
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